Product: Tailor of Panama [VHS] (2001)
Rating: 4.0
The Tailor of Panama
This adaptation of John Le Carre's Novel is amazingly done with Geoffery Rush portraying the bumbling, well meaning tailor to an industrializing Central American clientle. The story centers upon the small country of Panama which is an interest to the first world as it has re-acquired the rights to the famous canal constructed by American engineers.The British secret service send an agent, played by Pierce Brosnon(The Thomas Crown Affair), who is a morally flexible operative on his way out. Rather than portraying the Panama scene as bettering the tailor convinces the British Embassy's new man that the undercurrents of civil unrest continue beneath the surface. A wonderful movie of redemption on the part of the individual choosing the straight and narrow, in contrast with redemption on the part of a community, that is a country, moving away from conections to the international drug trade.A harrowing saga of forgiveness and triumph in the face of past defeat. The movie is a must see soley due to a magnificent rapport between seasoned actors.