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The Tailor of Panama is a 2001 spy thriller film directed by John Boorman from a screenplay he co-wrote with John le Carré and Andrew Davies. Based on le Carré's 1996 novel of the same name, it stars Pierce Brosnan and Geoffrey Rush.
The Tailor of Panama is a 1996 novel by British writer John le Carré. [1] . A 2001 film was released based on the novel. Plot. Harry Pendel is a British expatriate living in Panama City and running his own successful bespoke tailoring business, Pendel and Braithwaite.
- John Le Carre
- 1996
“The Tailor of Panama” is a real movie, rich and atmospheric, savoring its disreputable characters and their human weaknesses. And there’s room for genuine emotion, too, in the way Harry Pendel desperately holds onto the respectability he has conjured out of thin air.
Into his world comes Osnard, played by Pierce Brosnan. A morally corrupt, self-serving MI6 spy, sent to Panama as a last chance after seducing a Euro diplomats wife. Many were bowled over by the irony of casting Brosnan, so associated with James Bond, as this much realer, creepier Bond alter ego.
- (31K)
- Drama, Thriller
- John Boorman
- 2001-03-30
Apr 20, 2001 · At first glance, The Tailor of Panama is about one primary thing: a sleaze-ball, opportunistic secret agent gets sent to Panama as punishment for his professional missteps, then hooks-up with...
Feb 3, 2023 · As Andy Osnard, Pierce Brosnan plays an anti-Bond: the spy who loves nobody except himself. He is sent to Panama, where he recruits a local tailor, Harry Pendel (Geoffrey Rush)—who, like so many...
Mar 30, 2001 · Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times, reviews The Tailor of Panama, based on John Le Carre's novel. The film involves an British expatriate living in Panama and working as a...
