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Genres:
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Comedy /
Crime /
Drama /
Thriller
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Director:
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Steven Soderbergh
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Actors:
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Thomas F. Wilson,
Lucas McHugh Carroll,
Craig Ricci Shaynak,
Tom Papa,
Matt Damon,
Eddie Jemison,
Rusty Schwimmer,
Rick Overton,
Melanie Lynskey,
Scott Bakula
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Duration:
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108 min.
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Rating:
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(7.2/10)259
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Plot Summary:
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The Informant is the tale of Label Whitacre (Matt Damon), an Ivy League Ph.D. who was a rising star at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in the early 1990s. The bipolar luminary contusion up blowing the whistle on the company's price fixing tactics and became the highest-ranked executive to ever convert whistleblower in US ancient history. Whitacre secretly gathered hundreds of hours of video and audio tapes over certain years to produce to the FBI which became in unison of the largest price fixing cases in history. In the recounting -- a gloom comedy / thriller in director Steven Soderbergh's han... ds -- Whitacre's commendable indenture dovetails with his own important infractions and strain with bare bipolar disorganization.
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The Informant!
Kenneth TuranThe exclamation point at the end of The Informant! gives it all away. While the title may promise a straight-ahead drama, that bit of faux-jaunty emphasis shows that nothing of the sort is going on. Which is business as usual these days when Steven Soderbergh is the director.
Soderbergh, who won an Oscar for directing Traffic and was nominated for Erin Brockovich in the same year, is a filmmaker as exasperating as he is gifted. And not just when he forsakes calculated crowd pleasers like Ocean's Eleven for doodles like Bubble.
Just as there are studio executives who can, so the line goes, turn a go project into a development deal, Soderbergh's apparent resolve to tell interesting stories in uninteresting ways has given his recent work a disti...
The Informant!
Todd McCarthyThe wacky little brother of "Erin Brockovich," The Informant! goofs around lightheartedly while still doing some justice to the true-life story of a zealous but wildly delusional corporate whistle-blower. A larky outing for director Steven Soderbergh after the somber rigors of Che and The Girlfriend Experience, the pic showcases an excellent performance by a chubbed-out Matt Damon as a Midwestern executive who's so smart he's dumb. Amusingly eccentric rather than outright funny, this Warner Bros. release will have to rely mostly on Damon for its B.O., which looks to be modest.
Having already done a major film that called out big business with a straight face, Soderbergh returns to the same arena with a cocked eyebrow and lots of jokers up his sleeve....
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