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Studio: Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group
Studio: Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group
Coerced into working for British Intelligence, a tailor living in Panama concocts a left-wing movement with the goal of luring the American military into an invasion of Panama, thereby nullifying the Panama Canal treaty.
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In this adaptation of the darkly humorous John Le Carré novel, Pierce Brosnan plays a British spy (no, really?) who makes a deal for information with the tailor to Panama's rich and powerful (Geoffrey Rush).
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"The Tailor of Panama" casts Pierce Brosnan as a British agent - no, not that one. In director John Boorman's astutely comic film version of John Le Carr's 1996 novel, Brosnan plays Andy Osnard, an unscrupulous operative downgraded to duty in dull Panama. Playing a villain becomes Brosnan; he's looser, sexier, edgier. Still, the show belongs to Geoffrey Rush in a note-perfect performance as Harry Pendel, the tailor who caters to his "gentlemen" with the finest Savile Row worsteds. "Mr. Connery's…
