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Paul Howlett's TV film picks: Breach | Away from Her | Adrift

Breach (Billy Ray, 2007) 1.30pm & 9pm, Sky Movies Action Thriller Ray's meticulous and suspenseful spy drama tells the true story of Robert Hanssen, the FBI counter-intelligence operative who was exposed as a long-time KGB agent in "the worst breach in American history". Chris Cooper is superb as Hanssen, with Ryan Phillippe as the novice Fed who collared him, in a gripping tale. Away from Her (Sarah Polley, 2007) 8pm & 3.05am, Sky Movies Indie Polley's touching, thought-provoking drama stars Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent as an ageing couple coming to terms with her Alzheimer's. Installed in a geriatric home, her relationship with another patient (Michael Murphy) raises questions about the nature of memory, in a hugely impressive film, adapted from an Alice Munro story. Adrift (Hans Horn, 2006) 9pm, Film4 Also known as Open Water 2, this tale of peril at sea lacks the near-profound depths of the original, which had a man and a woman abandoned in the ocean, at the mercy of implacable nature. This one has six young people who are basically victims of stupidity when they dive off their yacht, having forgotten to lower the boarding ladder first. Still, it builds a fair swell of suspense. TV pick of the week Television (read more)