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The Tailor of Panama (2001) More at IMDbPro »

• The part of Sarah Pendel is played by Lola Boorman, director John Boorman's daughter.
  
  
• Brendan Gleeson, who plays Mickie Abraxas, is actually Irish. He dyed his naturally red hair black and wore brown contact lenses to complete his transformation into a Panamanian.
  
  
• The word "fuck" is used 28 times in the film
  
  
• Daniel Radcliffe's feature film debut.
  
  
• In the first scene with Geoffrey Rush, a picture of Sean Connery golfing can be seen. Rush's character Harry Pendel then goes on to say that the suit he is tailoring is much like one that Connery used to wear. This seems to be a reference to Connery in his Bond days, since he got much of his love of golf from the set of Goldfinger (1964) and since MI6 is featured in Pierce Brosnan's first scene.
  
  
• This is the only film based on a John le Carré novel on which he actually worked on the screenplay.
  
  
• Daniel Radcliffe and Brendan Gleeson will be reunited in the Harry Potter movie series.
  
  
• In True Lies (1994), Jamie Lee Curtis was also married to a spy and her husband is called Harry.
  
  

• SPOILER: The character of Andy Osnard was originally meant to be killed by Harry Pendel at the end of the film. Ultimately, however, director John Boorman thought that such an action would cast a pall on the character of Harry, and that it would be far more realistic for Osnard to get away with it.
  
  

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