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Overview
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Release Date:
30 March 2001 (USA)
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Tagline:
In a place this treacherous, what a good spy needs is a spy of his own.
Plot:
A tailor living in Panama reluctantly becomes a spy for a British agent. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination
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Irony for the wicked
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Pierce Brosnan | ... | Andrew 'Andy' Osnard |
 | Geoffrey Rush | ... | Harold 'Harry' Pendel |
 | Jamie Lee Curtis | ... | Louisa Pendel |
 | Leonor Varela | ... | Marta |
 | Brendan Gleeson | ... | Michelangelo 'Mickie' Abraxas |
| Harold Pinter | ... | Uncle Benny |
 | Catherine McCormack | ... | Francesca Deane |
 | Daniel Radcliffe | ... | Mark Pendel |
| Lola Boorman | ... | Sarah Pendel |
| David Hayman | ... | Luxmore |
 | Mark Margolis | ... | Rafi Domingo |
| Martin Ferrero | ... | Teddy, the Reporter |
| John Fortune | ... | Maltby |
| Martin Savage | ... | Stormont |
| Edgardo Molino | ... | Juan-David |
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Rated R for strong sexuality, language and some violence.
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Runtime:
109 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Netherlands:12 |
Iceland:12 |
South Korea:18 |
Philippines:R-18 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:MA |
Brazil:18 |
Canada:14A |
Finland:K-15 |
France:U |
Germany:12 |
Singapore:R21 (re-rating) |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:11 |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) |
UK:15 |
USA:R
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Trivia:
In True Lies (1994), Jamie Lee Curtis was also married to a spy and her husband is called Harry.
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Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: Abraxas can be seen breathing, blinking and opening his hands after he has died.
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Quotes:
Uncle Benny:
Harry boy, I've told you time and again, a man who tells the truth is bound to be found out sooner or later. Try sincerity, that's a virtue. But truth, it's an affliction!
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Movie Connections:
Spoofed in The Taylor of Atlanta (2002) (V)
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Soundtrack:
El Pretexto y la Dispensa
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If you understand irony, this film should be a real riotous laugh straight through. It is possibly one of the most brilliant movies so far this millennium, outright disrespectful of the "spy" theme: Brosnan's degenerated, decadent b*****d spy Osnard is just the way one would picture James Bond in real life, had the latter not been so awfully loyal. Actually, Osnard is James Bond minus loyalty and with his self-confidence, decadence and sexism turned up a couple of notches. A brilliant character, brilliantly acted. Another fantastic actor is the amazing Geoffrey Rush in the role as the Tailor of Panama, Harry Pendel.
The story is absolutely fascinating, one of the most clever and witty stories to emerge in a long while - the Tailor of Panama reluctantly becomes a spy and conjures up non-existent government plots to sell the Panama Canal to the Chinese, which makes the English and the Americans (portrayed as a bunch of idiots with delusions of grandeur and as militaristic blow-hards with victory as the only goal) react aggressively.
It is important that one understands that this film is serious in one respect only: its comedy. Don't see this expecting to see a thrilling spy-movie. It isn't, though I find the scope of the film thrilling. It's more of a comedy, and if you can't see that when the American general with tears in his eyes blurts: "There is a star missing from the American flag!", then you're not really equipped for this kind of film. The reason I'm writing this is that some reviewers have found the movie to be silly... which is just what one would think if one didn't get it.
Brilliant. Just brilliant.