The Informant!
(USA, 2009, 103 minutes)
The true story of agribusiness executive Mark Whitacre, who collaborated with the FBI to unmask a food additive price-fixing cartel but in the process unmasked his own double life. Bewildering, surreal dark comedy shot like a 1970s political thriller but scripted like a 21st century meta-fiction, twisting true-story conventions upside down in the usual playful manner of its protean director.
Warner Bros. Pictures presents, in association with Participant Media and Groundswell Productions, a Section Eight/Jaffe-Braunstein production.
Starring Matt Damon; also starring Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Melanie Lynskey.
Directed and photographed (under the alias Peter Andrews; Technicolor) by Steven Soderbergh; produced by Gregory Jacobs, Jennifer Fox, Michael Jaffe, Howard Braunstein, Kurt Eichenwald; screenplay by Scott Z. Burns, based on the book by Kurt Eichenwald, The Informant; music by Marvin Hamlisch; production designer, Doug Meerdink; costume designer, Shosana Rubin; film editor, Stephen Mirrione.
The true story of agribusiness executive Mark Whitacre, who collaborated with the FBI to unmask a food additive price-fixing cartel but in the process unmasked his own double life. Bewildering, surreal dark comedy shot like a 1970s political thriller but scripted like a 21st century meta-fiction, twisting true-story conventions upside down in the usual playful manner of its protean director.
Warner Bros. Pictures presents, in association with Participant Media and Groundswell Productions, a Section Eight/Jaffe-Braunstein production.
Starring Matt Damon; also starring Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Melanie Lynskey.
Directed and photographed (under the alias Peter Andrews; Technicolor) by Steven Soderbergh; produced by Gregory Jacobs, Jennifer Fox, Michael Jaffe, Howard Braunstein, Kurt Eichenwald; screenplay by Scott Z. Burns, based on the book by Kurt Eichenwald, The Informant; music by Marvin Hamlisch; production designer, Doug Meerdink; costume designer, Shosana Rubin; film editor, Stephen Mirrione.
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