The Informant!
The Informant! is a 2009 American biographical crime comedy film directed by Steven Soderbergh. Written by Scott Z. Burns, the film stars Matt Damon as the titular informant named Mark Whitacre, as well as Scott Bakula, Joel McHale and Melanie Lynskey. It depicts Whitacre's involvement as a whistleblower in the lysine price-fixing conspiracy of the mid-1990, and his embezzlement of millions of dollars from his employer. The film is based on the 2000 nonfiction book The Informant, by journalist Kurt Eichenwald.
Plot
Mark Whitacre, a rising star at the Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) office in Decatur, Illinois, during the early 1990s, blows the whistle on the company’s price-fixing tactics at the urging of his wife Ginger.
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| author | Scott Z. Burns |
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| contentLocation | Missouri |
| director | Steven Soderbergh |
| editor | Stephen Mirrione |
| genre | comedy crime |
| keywords | archer daniels midland around the world assault bald battery bipolar disorder collect conspiracy cove fbi gather good deed hong kong lysine mark whitacre meet mexico city out of control pardon rising star special agent tokyo wait white-collar crime white-collar criminals |
| musicBy | Marvin Hamlisch |
| producer | Gregory Jacobs Jennifer Fox Michael Jaffe |
| productionCompany | Participant Media Section Eight Productions |
| publisher | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| recordedAt | Arizona Chicago Hawaii Long Beach Paris Switzerland Zürich |
| theme | biographical crime comedy security and surveillance |