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The Tailor Of Panama
2001
Based on the novel by John LeCarre, this is the story of British spy, Andrew Osnard, who is banished to Panama. Whilst there he meets up with Harry Pendel, a local Tailor, who has connections to all the top politicians in Panama. Osnard persuades Pendel to keep an eye on the comings and going in the politicial world... Read more
| Starring | Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Gleeson |
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| Director | John Boorman |
| Genres | Thriller |
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The Tailor Of Panama
Based on the novel by John LeCarre, this is the story of British spy, Andrew Osnard, who is banished to Panama. Whilst there he meets up with Harry Pendel, a local Tailor, who has connections to all the top politicians in Panama. Osnard persuades Pendel to keep an eye on the comings and going in the politicial world...
| Starring | Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Gleeson, Leonor Varela, Catherine McCormack, Harold Pinter |
|---|---|
| Director | John Boorman |
| Studio | UCA |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 45 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 27 Feb 2004 Production year: 2001 |
| Format | DVD |
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Although this movie is about a spy and stars Pierce Brosnan, don't expect Bond-style heroics from our man abroad. In Deliverance director John Boorman's adaptation of John le Carré's novel, Brosnan plays a rotter of a secret service agent, sent to Panama after one too many misadventures. Once there, he causes even more problems by enlisting the information services of expatriate tailor Harry Pendel (Geoffrey Rush). Brosnan looks handsome but devious, Rush bumbles and Jamie Lee Curtis is given very little to do as Pendel's clueless wife, in one of those movies that you'll either love or detest with a vengeance.
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Deft and derisive thriller, about the self-justifying fantasists of the espionage business, that acknowledges its debt to Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana. It gains from Brosnan's performance as a sleazy, womanising spy who might imagine that he was Jame
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
A generally enjoyable watch, but not sure what it wants to be
I must admit that I struggled to work out what type of movie I was watching. At times, it seemed to be a classic John Le Carre espionage thriller, at others a tongue-in-cheek version of the same, and at others a story heading towards a series of seriously twisty plot twists, twisting around like a twisty thing, David Mamet-style.
This actually let it down, because it was hard to work out who you were supposed to be rooting for. Pierce Brosnan, in particular, played a nastier version of his 007 persona, and was clearly not supposed to come out as the overall victor.
The story itself, however, based around the conceit that one or two half-truths can quickly become self-fulfilling truths if you WANT to believe them, is unusual, and holds the viewer's interest for that reason.
What I cannot work out, however, is why Brendan Gleeson is in every other movie that I rent these days, invariably playing some kind of nutter with a silly accent (c.f. Cold Mountain, Turbulence, Gangs of New York, MI:2, 28 Days Later - the list is endless).
Lastly, a little trivialette - one of Geoffrey Rush's children in the movie is none other than Master Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe, looking as cute as a button, but without the speccies and the enormous goalposts. -
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
A generally enjoyable watch, but not sure what it wants to be
I must admit that I struggled to work out what type of movie I was watching. At times, it seemed to be a classic John Le Carre espionage thriller, at others a tongue-in-cheek version of the same, and at others a story heading towards a series of seriously twisty plot twists, twisting around like a twisty thing, David Mamet-style.
This actually let it down, because it was hard to work out who you were supposed to be rooting for. Pierce Brosnan, in particular, played a nastier version of his 007 persona, and was clearly not supposed to come out as the overall victor.
The story itself, however, based around the conceit that one or two half-truths can quickly become self-fulfilling truths if you WANT to believe them, is unusual, and holds the viewer's interest for that reason.
What I cannot work out, however, is why Brendan Gleeson is in every other movie that I rent these days, invariably playing some kind of nutter with a silly accent (c.f. Cold Mountain, Turbulence, Gangs of New York, MI:2, 28 Days Later - the list is endless).
Lastly, a little trivialette - one of Geoffrey Rush's children in the movie is none other than Master Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe, looking as cute as a button, but without the speccies and the enormous goalposts. -
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The Tailor Of Panama
Based on the novel by John LeCarre, this is the story of British spy, Andrew Osnard, who is banished to Panama. Whilst there he meets up with Harry Pendel, a local Tailor, who has connections to all the top politicians in Panama. Osnard persuades Pendel to keep an eye on the comings and going in ...
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