Chris Cooper has a face that could slow a clock. In the happiest of times his expressions range, at a measured pace, from thoughtful through meditative to mournful. In Billy Ray's thriller "Breach," he's got very little to be happy about. He plays Robert Hanssen, a tortured and devious FBI agent who was a spy for the Soviet Union. Hanssen was arrested in 2001, and won the dubious distinction of being the most notorious turncoat in the bureau's history. The movie is serious, intelligent, intentionally claustrophobic and awfully somber - you may remember it in black and white, though it was shot in color (by the masterful Tak Fujimoto). But you'll remember Cooper's performance for exactly what it is, an uncompromising study in the gradual decay of a soul.
