The Tailor of Panama is a 2001 Irish-American thriller starring Pierce Brosnan and Geoffrey Rush. It's based on the spy novel of the same name by John le Carré,
In this seductive spy thriller, Academy Award -winner Geoffrey Rush (1997, Best Actor, Shine) delivers a dazzling performance as Harry Pendel, an ex-con turned tailor to the rich and infamous and married to smart and sexy Luisa (Jamie Lee Curtis – True Lies).
Directed by Academy Award -nominee John Boorman (Hope and Glory, Deliverance) and set in steamy Panama, where nothing is what it seems, Andrew Osnard (Pierce Brosnan The Thomas Crown Affair), a suave and ruthless British spy, entices Harry into eavesdropping on the powerful politicians he clothes. But Harrys talent for storytelling compels him to weave an elaborate tale thats not only taken as truth, but sets off a chain of events that threatens to destroy everything he treasures most in life.
Special Features
- Audio commentary by director John Boorman
- Never-before-seen alternate ending with optional director commentary
- “The Perfect Fit” – a 20 min conversation with stars Geoffrey Rush and Pierce Brosnan
- Original movie trailer, Bonus movie trailers, Talent profiles
Reviews
“If you think the spy-thriller genre has been streamlined and spoofed and subverted until nothing new can be done to it, think again.” New York Magazine
“The Tailor of Panama is an intelligent, well written and acted film that goes against the conventions of its genre. It merits your attention.” DVD Verdict
“In a world full of off the rack thrillers, it's fine boutique quality.” Entertainment Weekly
“I had forgotten that thrillers could possibly be this much fun and rippingly intelligent at the same time.” Combustible Celluloid
“Many thrillers are essentially machines to inject a shock into the audience every few minutes. "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. And in the way the stubborn, heedless Mickie Abraxas says what he thinks no matter what the risk. The movie is abundant in its gifts, a pleasure for those who like a story to unfold lovingly over a full arc, instead of coming in short mindless bursts." Roger Ebert
“a post-Cold War black comedy about a corrupt world in which the kind of spying that made James Bond world famous no longer has a place” Q Network Film Desk
“Energetic and inventive, it's a satirical, smart, grown-up thriller.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“The first really good spy movie about the impossibility, under present historical circumstances, of making a really good spy movie.” The NY Times