The Informers

Get Showtimes + Tickets

  • Opened April 24, 2009 
  • 1 hr 38 min
  • R | strong sexual content, nudity, drug use, pervasive language and some disturbing images

  • In such works as Less Than Zero and American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis brilliantly dissects contemporary American society, a culture in which too much is never enough. Now, adapting his own acclaimed novel for the screen, he returns to the Los Angeles of the early 1980’s with a multi-strand narrative that deftly balances a vast array of characters who represent both the top of the heap and the bottom. Connecting all his intertwining strands are the quintessential Ellis protagonists—a group of beautiful, blonde young men and women who sleep all day and party all night, doing drugs—and one another—with abandon, never realizing that they are dancing on the edge of a volcano. Filmed with uncommon glamour and grit by acclaimed Australian director Gregor Jordan (Ned Kelly, Buffalo Soldiers), The Informers is an alternately blistering and chilling portrait of hedonism run amuck. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Winona Ryder, Jon Foster, Amber Heard, Mickey Rourke
  • Director: Gregor Jordan
  • Genres: Suspense/Thriller

What's the Buzz?

Be the first to review this movie!
Oh No!
Critics say Oh No!
20 out of 100
Read critic reviews
Write your own review

Critic Reviews

75
San Francisco Chronicle
| Mick LaSalle

Has an air of detachment and sadness, enhanced by the movie's being set a full quarter century ago. Read full review

63
Chicago Sun-Times
| Roger Ebert

If The Informers doesn't sound to you like a pleasant time at the movies, you are right. To repeat: dread, despair and doom. It is often however repulsively fascinating and has been directed by Gregor Jordan as a soap opera from hell, with good sets and costumes. Read full review

38
Charlotte Observer
|

It's a terrible muddle unless you take it as a satire on the Age of Ellis, the Jacqueline Susann for that Flock of Seagulls era. That way, the unintentional laughs seem almost ironic. Read full review

Read more critic reviews

Offers

Photos

A scene from "The Informers."