The Informant!
After the US government discovered the misfortunes of the agribusiness giant and price manipulation issues, it decided to arrest him. Based on the evidence provided by detective Mark Whitaker, the government is moving to arrest the man as the series offers a real look at the most infamous individuals in US history.
9 October 1954, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
29 April 1954, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
26 November 1965, Northbrook, Illinois, USA
16 March 1959, Recklinghausen, Germany
30 September 1970, West Point, New York, USA
3 December 1965, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
12 March 1946, Denver, Colorado, USA
30 January 1956, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
16 May 1977, New Plymouth, New Zealand
20 June 1947, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
8 February 1964, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
18 December 1966, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
5 January 1959, Urbana, Ohio, USA
September 29, 2011
Drills away into the dark humor of a white-collar tattletale, his ever-widening web of deceit and a scrambled criminal mind with a couple of screws loose.
April 04, 2011
More funny-weird than funny-ha-ha. But still funny.
June 01, 2015
As the story becomes more about the various undercover ops and the contradictory workings of Whitacre's hateful-lovable mind, The Informant! has an undeniable crackle.
September 19, 2009
Soderbergh is a good listener, too, always alert to the myriad ways his characters reveal, conceal and finally betray themselves in thought, word and deed.
June 01, 2015
The Informant! is an inspired social satire, a near-perfect single-carat diamond in an age of mindless movie bling. It's a small movie, but not in any sense minor.
September 19, 2009
Mark's collection of bizarre behaviors doesn't add up to a character.
November 20, 2009
It may come across like a self-satisfied madcap bauble, but that titular exclamation mark is the key that unlocks the myriad subtextual delights of Soderbergh's timely latest.
September 24, 2014
After a parodic run-up, the film betrays a certain respect for this odd little creation.
October 02, 2009
Damon is an agile comic performer, and Soderbergh knows how to serve him up without losing sight of the ultimate seriousness behind it all.
September 19, 2009
Soderbergh has transformed this into a treatise on the incompetence of everyone involved: the informant, the corporation upon which he informs, the lawyers, and the FBI. Strangely enough, it's completely believable.
May 06, 2011
In the end, it seems as though it's better to aim for searing moments and whiff on greatness than to shoot for the middle and hit it.
