- published: 29 Jun 2014
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Panama (i/ˈpænəmɑː/ PAN-ə-mah; Spanish: Panamá), officially the Republic of Panama (Spanish: República de Panamá [reˈpuβlika ðe panaˈma]), is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The capital is Panama City. Explored and settled by the Spanish in the 16th century, Panama broke with Spain in 1821 and joined a union of Nueva Granada, Ecuador, and Venezuela, named the Republic of Gran Colombia.When Gran Colombia the dissolved in 1831, Panama and Nueva Granada remained joined. Nueva Granada later became the Republic of Colombia.
With the backing of the United States, Panama seceded from Colombia in 1903, allowing the Panama Canal to be built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1904 and 1914. In 1977, an agreement was signed for the complete transfer of the Canal from the United States to Panama by the end of the century.
Actors: Baltasar Kormákur (producer), Liza Chasin (producer), Eric Fellner (producer), Lance E. Nichols (actor), Tim Bevan (producer), Kate Beckinsale (actress), Mark Wahlberg (actor), Ritchie Montgomery (actor), William Lucking (actor), Lukas Haas (actor), Diego Luna (actor), J.K. Simmons (actor), Giovanni Ribisi (actor), Baltasar Kormákur (director), Mark Wahlberg (producer),
Plot: Chris Faraday once smuggled illegal items or contraband into the country on freighters. He left that life behind, got married has a family and went legit. But when his brother-in-law got involved with Briggs, a drug dealer and when he blew a deal, Briggs demands restitution which he can't deliver. So Chris offers to find a way to pay him but the he threatens Chris' family if he doesn't deliver. So he gets on a freighter destined for Panama and he sets out to bring back some counterfeit currency. Briggs "goes to see" Chris' family. When Chris learns of this he asks his friend Sebastian to take care of them which he does. He tells Chris that it would be better to bring drugs instead of the cash.
Keywords: action-violence, alcoholic-relapse, alcoholics-anonymous, american-abroad, armored-truck, arrest, bar, beating, betrayal, blood-splatterActors: Beverly D'Angelo (actress), Robert Miano (actor), Max Perlich (actor), Eric Roberts (actor), Chris Marquette (actor), Dean Norris (actor), Ron Gilbert (actor), Sal Landi (actor), Richard Dreyfuss (actor), Bert Remsen (actor), Mickey Knox (actor), Anthony LaPaglia (actor), Peter Dobson (actor), Octavia Spencer (actress), Illeana Douglas (actress),
Plot: This is the telling of the life of organized crime boss, Meyer Lansky, as remembered by him as a very old man who is moving about the world looking for some country that will take him in since the US courts have put out an extradition order for him to stand trial. It tells of a young man growing up in the Jewish ghettos of America's big cities at the turn of the century and of his bright intelligence which he used for moving into crime. "I'm only a gambler," he claimed, "just like most all Americans." When asked by a reporter to comment on the killings that occurred under his leadership he declined, thereby making this film's thrust that of personalities and relationships rather than of acts of violence or the workings of corrupt deeds.
Keywords: based-on-book, character-name-in-title