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The U.S. government decides to go after an agro-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre. (R, 108 min.)
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Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon), a rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion. But before all that can happen, the FBI needs evidence, so Whitacre eagerly agrees to wear a wire and carry a hidden tape recorder in his briefcase, imagining himself as a kind of de facto secret agent.
Unfortunately for the FBI, their lead witness hasn’t been quite so forthcoming about helping himself to the corporate coffers. Whitacre’s ever-changing account frustrates the agents (Scott Bakula and Joel McHale) and threatens the case against ADM as it becomes almost impossible to decipher what is real and what is the product of Whitacre’s rambling imagination. Based on the true story of the highest-ranking corporate whistleblower in U.S. history. [Warner Bros]
Starring: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Melanie Lynskey, Joel McHale, Kellan Lutz
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Genre: Comedy, Biography, Drama
"A very smooth, very dry and hugely enjoyable movie."
— David Stratton, At the Movies (Australia)
"Damon gives the most fascinating and fearless performance of his career."
— Brian Tallerico, Movie Retriever
"A smart, cynical movie about how we buy now -- oops, I mean, how we live now."
— Manohla Dargis, New York Times
"The Informant! is a hoot, an ever-escalating tale of corporate crime, greed and out-and-out craziness"
— Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
"Entertaining, and, yes, dark at times, The Informant! serves an interesting story about a very complex man."
— Candice Frederick, Reel Talk Online
"Damon is an agile comic performer, and Soderbergh knows how to serve him up without losing sight of the ultimate seriousness behind it all."
— Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
"The Informant! has two aces going for it: Soderbergh's poking at the mazelike holes in American business and Damon's whirling dervish performance."
— Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News
"Director Stephen Soderbergh and its star Matt Damon have crafted a skittish caper movie, a pyrotechnical display of colourful lies that unravel to a giddy retro score."
— Wendy Ide, The Times (UK)
"Few directors other than Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino can make films with the same geek joy -- the same love of cinematic history -- as Steven Soderbergh."
— Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
"It suggests that in a world gone mad, even the good guys can be a little cracked, and that, in an age of self-indulgence, it might be hard for a whistleblower to heed his own alarms."
— Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
"Shooting fast and digital in just 30 days, Soderbergh invests the film with the breathless pace of a thriller and the gravity befitting a nation's soul sickness. Damon makes Whitacre recognizably human."
— Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"In adapting reporter Kurt Eichenwald's non-fiction account of Mark E. Whitacre, the corporate corn husker turned federal snitch, Soderbergh has given this incredible story exactly the amount of insanity it deserves."
— Peter Howell, Toronto Star
"[Damon] occupies his equivocating antihero utterly, capturing the Walter Mittyish self-delusion, the desperate desire to please, and the bottomless conviction that, whatever his transgressions, he's still one of the good guys."
— Christopher Orr, The New Republic
