Billy Ray's anti-thriller is based on the real-life case of Robert Hanssen, a career FBI agent of rigorous intelligence, piercing — if tactless — integrity and deep religious convictions who systematically sold intelligence to Russian spymasters.
Ambitious FBI trainee Eric O'Neill (Ryan Phillippe) thinks he's one step closer to becoming an agent when steely Kate Borroughs (Laura Linney) recruits him for a secret assignment. But the job is disappointingly seamy: Posing as a lowly office clerk, O'Neill will be spying on counterintelligence officer Hanssen (Chris Cooper), whose secret life — consorting with strippers, frequenting online porn sites and the like —...
Released:
2007
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
110 mins