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Release Date
• USA: Mar 30, 2001
• UK: 20 Apr 2001
DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 11, 2001
• R2: 12 Apr 2004
Budget $18,000,000
Official Website:
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MPAA Rating
Rated R for strong sexuality, language and some violence.
Running Time
1 hour, 49 minutes
Country USA, Ireland
Studio Columbia Pictures, Merlin Films
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Other Titles
• The Tailor of Panama
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Genre: Thriller, Drama, Comedy, Spy, Political, Black Comedy, Suspense, Escape, Satire, Disturbing, Scams And Cons
Tagline: In a place this treacherous, what a good spy needs is a spy of his own.
Plot: 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 The mundane tragedy of espionage familiar to le Carre's Cold Warriors has been replaced by farce with the collapse of the Soviet Union.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
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| Directed by |
John Boorman
Deliverance, Excalibur, Exorcist II: The Heretic |
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| Written by |
John le Carré
The Constant Gardener, The Russia House, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold | Andrew Davies
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Circle of Friends, B. Monkey |
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| Cast |
Pierce Brosnan
Mars Attacks!, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day |
 | Geoffrey Rush
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Finding Nemo, Shakespeare in Love |
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 | Daniel Radcliffe
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
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| Music By |
Shaun Davey
Twelfth Night: Or What You Will, The Abduction Club, David Copperfield |
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