The Tailor of Panama (Blu-ray) R
In a place this treacherous, what a good spy needs is a spy of his own.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 20, 2013
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: Image Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Pierce Brosnan & Geoffrey Rush | |
Performer: | Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Gleeson, David Hayman, Catherine McCormack, Harold Pinter, Leonor Valera & Dylan Baker | |
Directed by | John Boorman | |
Edited by | Ron Davis | |
Screenwriting by | Andrew Davies & John Boorman | |
Original story by | John le Carré | |
Director of Photography: | Philippe Rousselot |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 6/10 --
Brosnan... completely alters the tone of the movie with every scene he's in, bringing a level of smarminess that makes it far more interesting than just a bureaucratic spy thriller
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Antagony & Ecstasy
...[A] masterful, eccentrically bespoke of adaptation....The mohair-and-silk blend of Rush and Brosnan, Boorman and le Carre feels good, luxe, exciting...
Entertainment Weekly
...A hypnotic film that stays resonantly humane even as Boorman skewers British and American diplomacy with martini-dry wit...
Rolling Stone
Rating: 3/5 --
Funny, frisky and always on the right side of plausible. Mission accomplished.
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RTÉ (Ireland)
Rating: 3.5/4 --
I had forgotten that thrillers could possibly be this much fun and rippingly intelligent at the same time.
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Combustible Celluloid
Seems diligently assembled.
The New Republic
...Directed by the inestimable John Boorman, and with a classy cast....Rush delivers] yet another subtly charismatic turn...
Total Film
Product Description:
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.