The Informant! (2009) Movie Overview

The Informant! is a 2009 dark comedy film directed by Steven Soderbergh. It depicts Mark Whitacre’s involvement as a whistle blower in the lysine price-fixing conspiracy of the mid-1990s, as described in the 2000 nonfiction book, The Informant, by journalist Kurt Eichenwald. The script was written by Scott Z. Burns and the film stars Matt Damon, Richard Steven Horvitz, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale and Melanie Lynskey. Mark Whitacre (Damon), a rising star at Decatur, Illinois based Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in the early 1990s, blows the whistle on the company’s price-fixing tactics, after his wife (Lynsky) forces him to. One night in early November 1992, Whitacre confesses to FBI agent Brian Shepard (Bakula), present only to install a wire tap on Whitacre’s phone, that ADM executives — including Whitacre himself — had routinely met with competitors to fix the price of lysine, an additive used in the commercial livestock industry. Whitacre secretly gathers hundreds of hours of video and audio over several years to present to the FBI. He assists in gathering evidence by clandestinely taping the company’s activity in business meetings at various locations around the globe such… Source

• The Informant! Movie Details
• Director: Steven Soderbergh
• Official Sites: Official site, Official site [jp], Official site [de]
• Tagline: Based on a tattle-tale
• Country: USA
• Run Time: 108 min
• Genre: Comedy , Crime , Drama , Thriller

• Cast Overview
• Matt Damon as Mark Whitacre
• Lucas McHugh Carroll as Alexander Whitacre (as Lucas Carroll)
• Eddie Jemison as Kirk Schmidt
• Rusty Schwimmer as Liz Taylor
• Craig Ricci Shaynak as Discouraged Foreman
• Tom Papa as Mick Andreas

The Informant! Movie Overview – Yahoo Movies

The Informant! (2009): What was Mark Whitacre thinking? A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his companys 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 al… Source

The Informant! Movie Review from New York Times

If you want to know why Steven Soderbergh tapped Marvin Hamlisch to write the zany score for “The Informant!,” a deadly serious comedy about corporate malfeasance, consider the title’s exclamation point. Like that unexpected mark of exuberance, which hints at fun times (yippee!), the brassy horns and racing piano notes of the neo-slapstick sc… Source

The Informant! Movie Info by Apple Movies

What was Mark Whitacre thinking? A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Whitacre 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 happ… Source

The Informant! Movie Details from Imdb

Mark Whitacre has worked for lysine developing company ADM for many years and has even found his way into upper management. But nothing has prepared him for the job he is about to undertake – being a spy for the FBI. Unwillingly pressured into working as an informant against the illegal price-fixing activities of his company, Whitacre gradually ado… Source

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