The Informant! (2009)

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"Well, there you have it, from Mark Whitacre, Ph.D. You know what the Ph.D. stands for, don't you? Piled higher and deeper."

While the marketing squad at Warner Brothers promoted The Informant! as a loony comedy set within the corporate environment, the trailers are in fact quite misleading. Rather than playing the material as a straightforward mainstream comedy, director Steven Sod... read more

I liked this movie but it is definitely not for everyone (my wife fell asleep for example...). There is a weird combination of styles which I found really intriguing and Matt Damon was just amazing. If you like weird movies, maybe this is for you... Anyway, I think it is definitely worth a look, if only for Matt Damon's impressive perfomance.

*VERY LONG/SPOLIERS*

"It's very difficult to tell when Mr. Whitacre is telling the truth."

Watching Mark spin his webs is a lot like watching a little kid playing mind games with his parents. He's really a master of word-games, a real lord of lying, and he really has made lying his art-form, not unlike Holden Caulfield, actually. And that's why this movie is so funny... read more

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