Patrick Breen
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As a respected American supporting player in film, television, and theater who occasionally moonlights as a screenwriter, Patrick Breen first culled recognition in the American press in 1991. That spring, the then-30-year-old delivered a bravura performance as an emotionally damaged son in Jon Robin Baitz's disappointing play The Substance of Fire. Breen hit his zenith as a film actor during the mid-'90s, with turns in several memorable (if uneven) Hollywood movies. These included For Love or Money (1993), Barry Sonnenfeld's Get Shorty (1995) and Men in Black (1997), and Carl Franklin's One True Thing (1998). Breen's generally nondescript, albeit pleasant, appearance enabled him to fill practically any role, from a doctor (in the Sonnenfeld picture) to Mr. Tweedy (in the Franklin film).Breen first branched off into screenwriting just after the turn of the new millennium, with back-to-back indie features which he both acted in and scripted. The 2000 picture East of A constitutes a slice-of-life drama about a trio of New York City roommates over the course of ten years. Unfortunately, East of A received extremely limited distribution and was reviewed by very few mainstream critics. Its follow-up, the 2002 ensemble comedy Just a Kiss (directed by the character actor and comic Fisher Stevens and starring Ron Eldard, Kyra Sedgwick, and Marisa Tomei) provides a surrealistic exploration of the romantic vicissitudes among a group of swinging singles. That film fared better in terms of pedigree, but demonstrated an extremely unstable overtone, meandering between lighthearted romantic comedy and darker, more cynical black comedy; perhaps as a result, it premiered in 2002 to almost unanimously devastating reviews, opening and closing practically overnight, and effectively turning Breen away from produced screenwriting work for quite some time. In 2004, he returned to A-list acting as a character player in the holiday comedy Christmas with the Kranks, starring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis. He was away from movie screens for five years, returning next in 2009's Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant and had the leading role two years later in the horror film The Bleeding House.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | Milkwater |
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— | 2020 |
75% | After Louie |
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— | 2018 |
89% | A Most Violent Year |
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— | 2015 |
59% | Draft Day |
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$21.2M | 2014 |
50% | The Pretty One |
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$11.7k | 2014 |
40% | The Bleeding House |
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— | 2011 |
0% | Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back |
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— | 2010 |
38% | Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant |
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$13.9M | 2009 |
33% | Space Chimps |
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$30M | 2008 |
No Score Yet | The Neighbor |
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— | 2007 |
5% | Christmas With the Kranks |
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$73.8M | 2004 |
35% | Radio |
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$52.3M | 2003 |
18% | Just a Kiss |
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— | 2002 |
20% | Stark Raving Mad |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | East of A |
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— | 2000 |
90% | Galaxy Quest |
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— | 1999 |
23% | Just the Ticket |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Advice From a Caterpillar |
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— | 1999 |
89% | One True Thing |
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— | 1998 |
92% | Men in Black |
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— | 1997 |
36% | Sweet Nothing |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Magic Adventures of Mumfie |
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— | 1996 |
88% | Get Shorty |
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— | 1995 |
37% | For Love or Money |
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— | 1993 |
10% | Passed Away |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Nobody's Perfect |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Day One |
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— | 1989 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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20% |
Conviction
2016-2017
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78% |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
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93% |
The Good Wife
2009-2016
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95% |
Elementary
2012-2019
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No Score Yet |
Madam Secretary
2014-2019
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No Score Yet |
Blue Bloods
2010
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24% |
The Mysteries of Laura
2014-2016
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No Score Yet |
Criminal Minds
2005
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No Score Yet |
CSI: Miami
2002-2012
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No Score Yet |
Ghost Whisperer
2005-2010
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31% |
Three Rivers
2009-2010
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60% |
Eli Stone
2008-2009
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96% |
Pushing Daisies
2007-2009
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89% |
The New Adventures of Old Christine
2006-2010
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86% |
Boston Legal
2004-2008
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No Score Yet |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000-2015
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83% |
Kevin Hill
2004-2005
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91% |
Monk
2002-2009
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9% |
Rock Me Baby
2003-2004
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order
1990-2010
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96% |
Joan of Arcadia
2003-2005
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88% |
Angel
1999-2004
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No Score Yet |
Family Law
1999-2002
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75% |
The West Wing
1999-2006
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61% |
Ally McBeal
1997-2002
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93% |
Frasier
1993-2004
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No Score Yet |
Judging Amy
1999-2005
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88% |
The Tick
2001-2002
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No Score Yet |
Will & Grace
1998-2006
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No Score Yet |
Party of Five
1994-2000
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50% |
Big Wave Dave's
1993
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Quotes from Patrick Breen's Characters
Alexander Dane: | [Quellek has been shot, and is dying. Alexander rushes to him] Quellek? [sees Quellek's wound] That's not too bad. We'll get you to the medical quarters, and you'll be fine. |
Quellek: | It has been my greatest pleasure to serve with you. I have been blessed. I... I... I... |
Alexander Dane: | Don't speak, Quellek. |
Quellek: | You'll forgive my impertinence, but even though we have never before met, I have always considered you as a father to me. |
Alexander Dane: | Quellek... by Grabthar's hammer... by the Sons of Warvan... you shall be... avenged. |