Genre: Comedy / Drama / Thriller
Length: 1h 48m 4s
Director: John Boorman
Tagline: In a place this treacherous, what a good spy needs is a spy of his own.
Plot outline: John LeCarre's spy thriller is brought to the big screen. A British spy (Pierce Brosnan) is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor (Geoffrey Rush) with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife (Jamie Lee Curtis), who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Panama Canal. But what the two do is concoct a tremendous fictional tale about former mercenaries who are ready to topple the current government and are willing to work with Britain and the US to do so. Summary written by John Sacksteder {jsackste@bellsouth.net}
Comment: SPOILERS - The IMDB voters pretty much have this one pegged as a "7" of 10 movie. Pierce Brosnan is the deceitful British MI.6 spy exiled to Panama for prior indiscretions, including those with the wives of others. He is out for himself, foul-mouth, and looks to seduce every attractive woman he sees, and in the end tries to make off with all the ill-gotten cash. He is virtually the male version of the role Linda Fiorentino plays in "The Last Seduction." Geoffrey Rush is the best actor in this film. He plays the tailor who has a dark secret, even his wife (Jamie Lee Curtis) doesn't know he was in prison, and that is where he learned his trade. Everyone knows him as "the story teller", because he tries to please everyone and always has a new story handy for any situation. He has gotten in debt, the bank is squeezing him, and Brosnan's offer of cash for inside "spy" information sucks him in out of necessity. Jamie Lee is always beautiful, and in a couple of scenes she actually does chest nudity, which is very rare for her. A slender, beautiful actress with such a chest -- who cares if she can act or not? :-) The story is one of intrigue. Is the USA government really planning to take the Panama Canal back? How many of the stories told by the tailor are really true? A pretty entertaining two (almost) hours. However, the dialog is sometimes hard to follow, and some of the storyline is too. Very little action, see it for Geoffrey Rush, Pierce Brosnan, and Jamie Lee Curtis.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
Country: USA
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Subtitels: Yes (English)
DVDs: 1
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| Actors: | ||
| Pierce Brosnan | as | Andrew 'Andy' Osnard |
| Geoffrey Rush | as | Harold 'Harry' Pendel |
| Jamie Lee Curtis | as | Louisa Pendel |
| Leonor Varela | as | Marta |