Although this movie is about a spy and stars Pierce Brosnan, don't expect Bond-style heroics from our man abroad. In Deliverance director John Boorman's adaptation of John le Carré's novel, Brosnan plays a rotter of a Secret Service agent, sent to Panama after one too many misadventures. Once there, he causes even more problems by enlisting the information services of expatriate tailor Harry Pendel (Geoffrey Rush). Brosnan looks handsome but devious, Rush bumbles and Jamie Lee Curtis is given very little to do as Pendel's clueless wife, in one of those movies that you'll either love or detest with a vengeance.

A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife, who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Canal.