Dateline, Featurettes, Deleted Scenes
The Breach DVD contains a few other bonus materials, the most interesting of which is the 19-minute segment from the TV program Dateline titled "The Mole" that originally aired on March 5, 2001, less than three weeks after Hanssen's arrest. Another extra is the 11-minute making-of featurette titled "Breaching the Truth" that allows you to see what Billy Ray and Eric O'Neill look like. Also, there's the seven-minute "Anatomy of a Character" about actor Chris Cooper portraying the spy Robert Hanssen.
There are eight deleted scenes on the DVD with a total running time of 12 minutes, and these can optionally be watched with audio commentary by the director and editor Jeffrey Ford. Mostly these scenes were deleted to speed up pacing, but texture was lost. Also on the DVD are two alternate scenes that run a total of six minutes, and optional audio commentary is also available for these. The alternate scenes can serve as case studies for budding filmmakers.
DVD Details
Below I've listed the details for the DVD containing Breach.
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Widescreen (1.85:1), Color
Feature Film Run Time: 1 hour 51 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for Violence, Sexual Content and Language
English Dolby Digital 5.1
French Dolby Digital 5.1
English Captions for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
French Subtitles
Spanish Subtitles
Feature Audio Commentary by Writer-Director and Ex-FBI Operative
Deleted Scenes (8 scenes with total run time = 12 minutes)
Alternate Scenes (2 scenes with total run time = 6 minutes)
Making-Of Featurette (11 minutes)
Chris Cooper's Portrayal of Robert Hanssen (7 minutes)
Dateline Segment on Real-Life Robert Hanssen (19 minutes)
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