TY - BOOK AU - Boorman,John AU - Gleeson,Brendan AU - Catherine McCormack AU - Geoffrey Rush AU - Harold Pinter AU - Jamie Lee Curtis AU - Leonor Varela AU - Pierce Brosnan TI - The Tailor of Panama AV - DVD 000226 PY - 2001/// CY - USA, Ireland PB - Columbia Pictures Corporation KW - Thriller KW - Drama N1 - A tailor living in Panama reluctantly becomes a spy for a British agent; John le Carré N2 - 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 UR - http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0236784/ ER -