The Tailor of Panama is a 2001 spy film made by Merlin Productions and Columbia Pictures. It was produced and directed by John Boorman from a screenplay by Boorman, Andrew Davies and John le Carré based on the 1996 Le Carré novel, itself inspired by Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana.
The film stars Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush and Jamie Lee Curtis with Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Radcliffe, David Hayman, John Fortune, Catherine McCormack and Harold Pinter.
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. Written by John Sacksteder
