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The Informant!Overview and Synopsis

  • The Informant!
  • Opened September 18, 2009 | Runtime:1 hr. 48 min.
  • R
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  • The Informant is the tale of Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon), an Ivy League Ph.D. who was a rising star at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in the early 1990s. The bipolar hero wound up blowing the whistle on the company's price fixing tactics and Read More
  • Cast: Matt Damon, Melanie Lynskey, Scott Bakula
  • Director: Steven Soderbergh
  • Genres: Comedy of Errors, Docudrama, Comedy

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  • Matt Damon as Mark Whitacre in "The Informant!"
  • Matt Damon as Mark Whitacre in "The Informant!"
  • Joel McHale as FBI Special Agent Bob Herndon in "The Informant!"

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  • Matt Damon at the Italy premiere of "The Informant!"
  • Matt Damon and Luciana Bozan Barroso at the Italy premiere of "The Informant!"
  • Steven Soderbergh at the Italy premiere of "The Informant!"

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  • Shoulda been forty minutes shorter
    by anneeed

    I hate it when I start checking my watch and find the movie's only been running for an hour. This was listed as a comedy? Uhhh, no. It wasn't funny, it was annoying and repetitive. Like a...Read More

  • Completely stupid!
    by sc53

    I couldn't believe how unbelievable this movie was! How could the FBI, coworkers, bosses, wife etc keep believing that idiot lying Mark Whitacre as he continually fabricated convenient stories on...Read More

  • Smart, Funny, Interesting
    by skrantz

    This is an interesting story with a fascinating main character. It is well constructed, moves at a good pace, is funny, and overall very enjoyable. Highly Recommended....Read More

  • informant
    by noahmoss

    different but good humor...Read More

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The Informant! Critic Reviews

  • "While this film fits squarely into Soderbergh's recurrent goal of ignoring audience interest when possible, that's the only area in which it can be considered a success." Los Angeles Times

    - Kenneth Turan

  • "Soderbergh takes a deadly serious news story and amplifies and colors it to the point of outrageousness." USA Today

    - Claudia Puig

  • "The Informant! goofs around lightheartedly while still doing some justice to the true-life story of a zealous but wildly delusional corporate whistle-blower. " Variety

    - Todd McCarthy

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