“The Informant” is the latest title of least effective Steven Soderbergh, who laying hold of Matt Damon has been removed from the sleeve a comedy that appears to prolong the diatribes against the large companies that Michael Clayton, Duplicity and The International have inaugurated. Soderbergh chained this with “The Girlfriend Experience”.
Some time ago I mentioned that Matt Damon’s new project before taking on a new installment of the series “Bourne” was “The Informant”, which would work under the direction of Steven Soderbergh and with Joel McHale, Scott Bakula and Melanie Lynskey.
“The Informant” tells true facts that can read in the eponymous book published in 2000 and is situated in the year 1992, moment in which a food company executive “Archer Daniels Midland Company named Mark Whitacre (played by Damon) decides to confess to the FBI met with their power to fix the price of “lysine” an amino acid used to fatten farm animals. The problem is that beyond his confession, evidence is needed.
Based on a true story, “The informant” tells the story of Mark Whitakre, that despite a prosperous future in the multinational where he works, lends itself to cooperate with the FBI to expose the company, accused of corrupt practices to fix prices at international level. Very happy with his espionage work, Whitakre soon begins to wander and cause doubts in the intelligence services. Is the employee making up part of the information, seized by enthusiasm for his task improvised double agent?
The United States government faces a millionaire scam company biochemistry. Time passes and there seems no alternative but to pay money that has not been legally obtained. The only solution is to infiltrate an informer to obtain the necessary evidence. The United States has her man, and that man has the name and courage: Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon).
Here’s how it must begin work as an informant, gathering all possible information about the company and the product.
In real life, this work was that it could prosecute for conspiracy Danields Archer and fined $ 100 million. Whitacre despite the help offered was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Release Date: September 18th, 2009
Genre: Comedy
Starring: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Melanie Lynskey, Thomas F. Wilson
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: Scott Burns
Running Time: 1 hr. 48 min.
MPAA Rating: R for language.
Distributors: Warner Bros. Pictures
Official Website: TheInformantmovie.com
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