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The Informant! is a 2009 American biographical crime comedy film directed by Steven Soderbergh. Written by Scott Z. Burns, the film stars Matt Damon as the titular informant named Mark Whitacre, as well as Scott Bakula, Joel McHale and Melanie Lynskey. It depicts Whitacre's involvement as a whistleblower in the lysine price-fixing conspiracy of ...
The Informant!: Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With Matt Damon, Lucas McHugh Carroll, Eddie Jemison, Rusty Schwimmer. 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.
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- Biography, Comedy, Crime
- Steven Soderbergh
- 2009-09-18
4 days ago · The Informant! is a 2009 film directed by Steven Soderbergh, based on the true story of corporate whistleblower Mark Whitacre. Matt Damon stars as Whitacre, an executive at Archer Daniels Midland ...
Sep 16, 2009 · Comedy. 108 minutes ‧ R ‧ 2009. Roger Ebert. September 16, 2009. 4 min read. Matt Damon stars as Mark Whitacre in the offbeat comedy "The Informant!" Mark Whitacre was the highest-ranking executive in U.S. history to blow the whistle in a case of corporate fraud. He ended up with a prison sentence three times longer than any of the criminal ...
Sep 16, 2009 · THE INFORMANT! directed by Steven Soderbergh, written by Scott Z. Burns from the book by Kurt Eichenwald, with Matt Damon, Scott Bakula and Melanie Lynskey. A Warner Bros release. 108 minutes. A ...
Sep 17, 2009 · A classic example: Daniel Ellsberg, the subject of a moving new documentary at the Toronto International Film Festival, who was willing to face a lifetime in prison for leaking the Pentagon Papers.
A movie by Steven Soderbergh starring Matt Damon is right up my alley. The Informant isn’t top tier for either of them, but it’s still an enjoyable movie. Even though the true story doesn’t have the happiest of endings (for me) due to twists we see in the movie, the back half of the film is still far more enjoyable than the setup.
