Matt Damon as Mark Whitacre in The Informant!
Matt Damon gives the best performance of his career so far in
this true story of Mark Whitacre, an overweight, moustachioed, highly
paid, high-flying executive for a major agri-business corporation in the
American Midwest who, in 1992, blew the whistle on his employers for
worldwide price fixing. For the next three years, he worked closely with
the FBI and the Justice Department gathering evidence against his firm
and seemingly putting his career at risk. But his whistle contained a
cracked pea or two and at times gave out a high-pitched, off-key sound
to which his government minders turned a deaf or tin ear.
Gradually, they and we come to suspect that Mark may not be
exactly the straight-up guy with a troubled conscience he presents
himself as. Is he perhaps a charming, plausible psychopath of a kind
most of us have come across at some time in our lives, if in a smaller
way? It's a confident, jaunty film that leaves us feeling sympathetic
towards both the federal investigators and Whitacre's devious
associates.
- The Informant!
- Production year: 2009
- Country: USA
- Cert (UK): 15
- Runtime: 108 mins
- Directors: Steven Soderbergh
- Cast: Clancy Brown, Frank Welker, Joel McHale, Matt Damon, Melanie Lynskey, Patton Oswalt, Scott Bakula
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