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Mood:
- CleverCynicalStylizedSuspensefulSexyBiting
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- Government AgencyPoliticsDishonestyState AffairsUndercoverCouplesEspionageFighting the System more...
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Genres:
- DramaThriller
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Time/Period:
- 90s
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Praise:
- Critically Acclaimed
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Humor:
- Dark Humor
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- Talky
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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- SeriousRealistic
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The Tailor of Panama, 2001
English, Spanish
USA, Ireland
Profile of The Tailor of Panama
The Tailor of Panama can be described as cynical, clever, and sexy. The plot revolves around a government agency, undercover characters, and politics. Its comic aspect comes from dark humor. The Tailor of Panama's main genres are drama and thriller. In terms of style, it is talky. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The Tailor of Panama takes place in the 1990s. It is based on a book. The movie has received attention for being critically acclaimed. Note that The Tailor of Panama involves sexual content, profanity, and violent content.
Summary of The Tailor of Panama
Pierce Brosnan stars as the anti-Bond in maverick director John Boorman's adaptation of legendary spy novelist John le Carre's seamy tour of post-Noriega Panama. A British intelligence agent whose taste for gambling and other men's wives has put him on the wrong side of his bosses at MI6, Andy Osnard (Brosnan) is posted to the backwater of Panama to atone for his sins. To that end, he recruits upscale tailor Harry Pendel (Geoffrey Rush), leveraging the man's financial problems and questionable past to gain access to information about the activities of his elite clientele. Meanwhile, Osnard remains true to form, recruiting the personal services of lovely embassy official Francesca (Catherine McCormack), and attempting the same with Harry's wife, Louisa (Jamie Lee Curtis). When Harry's best friend Micki (Brendan Gleeson), a former member of the anti-Noriega underground, now a broken man, begins blustering about politics in front of Osnard, both of these con men begin to see him as the solution to their problems. The mundane tragedy of espionage familiar to le Carre's Cold Warriors has been replaced by farce with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Boorman creates an atmosphere redolent with U.S.-abetted corruption in this well written and acted film, which also features playwright Harold Pinter in a cameo role.
Details
| Language: | English, Spanish |
| Country: | USA, Ireland |
| Release date: | 30 March 2001 |
| Runtime: | 109 min |
Cast and Crew
as Harold 'Harry' Pendel
as Andrew 'Andy' Osnard
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Critics Reviews
The New York Times
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- by: Dana Stevens
Entertainment Weekly
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- by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
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- 17.September.2010
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