The Informant! (2009)


The Informant!
6.2 Listal rating
6.6 IMDB rating
Directed by


Starring (View all)
Matt Damon

Matt Damon

Mark Whitacre
Lucas McHugh Carroll

Lucas McHugh Carroll

Alexander Whitacre
Eddie Jemison

Eddie Jemison

Kirk Schmidt
Rusty Schwimmer

Rusty Schwimmer

Liz Taylor
Craig Ricci Shaynak

Craig Ricci Shaynak

Discouraged Foreman
Tom Papa

Tom Papa

Mick Andreas
Rick Overton

Rick Overton

Terry Wilson
Melanie Lynskey

Melanie Lynskey

Ginger Whitacre


Written by
Scott Z. Burns

Scott Z. Burns

(screenplay)
Kurt Eichenwald

Kurt Eichenwald

(book)


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Never quite catches fire...

2 years, 2 months ago at Feb 26 5:20
"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

A bizarre movie

1 year, 5 months ago at Dec 21 4:46
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.

Why Do You Keep Lying?

7 months, 2 weeks ago at Oct 5 19:54
*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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Description: 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 ... (more)
Release date : 18 September 2009
Comedy (9), Drama (7), Crime (5), 2009 (5), Fbi (4), 2000s (4), Embezzlement (3), Lawyers (3), True Story (3), Mental Illness (2), (2), Interesting (1), BMW (1), Informant (1), Mystery (1), 2010 (1), Whistle Blowers (1), Based On Book (1), Corporate Corruption (1), In2010 (1)
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Why Do You Keep Lying?

“*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 and fun to watch, I've watched it a bunch of times, and it's basically because of Mark, and how loveably immature he is.

As for the broader picture, well, the world is very corrupt, and people know that, but it's still very different from how people think it is. It's a different kind of corrupt. Take two examples:

First, a big-shot from the company, Mick Andreas, talking with his cron” read more

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