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The Informant!
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0883929022342
Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, Subtitled, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 15
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledSpanishSubtitledEnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: 883929022342
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Running Time: 108 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
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Product Description:
A rising star at agri-industry giant archer daniels midland whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his companys multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the fbi whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/23/2010 Starring: Matt Damon Frank Welker Run time: 108 minutes Rating: R
Amazon.com:
Steven Soderbergh's The Informant!--like the director's one-two Oscar® punch, Erin Brockovich and Traffic--is an energetic exposé of corporate/criminal chicanery with wide-ranging implications for life in these United States. Not so much like those movies, it plays as hyper-caffeinated comedy. At its center is Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon), a biochemist and junior executive at agri-giant Archer Daniels Midland who, in 1992, began feeding the FBI evidence of ADM's involvement in price fixing. Mark's motive for doing so is elusive, sometimes self-contradictory, and subject to mutation at any moment. To describe him as bipolar would be akin to finding the Marx Brothers somewhat zany. His Fed handlers, along with the audience, start thinking of him as a hapless goofball. Then they and we get blind-sided with the revelation of further dimensions of Mark's life at ADM, and the nature of the investigation--and the movie--changes. That will happen again. And again. It's Soderbergh's ingenious strategy to make us fellow travelers on Mark's crazy ride, virtually infecting us with a short-term version of his dysfunctionality.
Props to screenwriter Scott Z. Burns for boiling down Kurt Eichenwald's 600-page book The Informant: A True Story without sacrificing coherence. And Matt Damon, bulked up by 30 pounds and spluttering his manic lines from under a caterpillar mustache, reconfirms his virtuosity and his willingness to dive deep into such a dodgy personality. On the downside, despite a small army of comedians in cameo roles, The Informant! has nothing like the rich field of subsidiary characters encountered in Erin Brockovich and Traffic. That lack of vibrancy is aggravated by the dominance of prairie-flat Midwest speech patterns and cadences (most of the film unreels in Illinois), and the razzmatazz score by veteran tunesmith Marvin Hamlisch sounds like pep-rally music on an industrial film. Soderbergh also photographed the movie (under his pseudonym Peter Andrews), and his decision to show everything through a corn-mush filter turns it into a big-screen YouTube experience. --Richard T. Jameson
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Rating:  -
This is one of the most boring, pointless and sleep inducing films I have seen in a long time. I watched it with a friend and we kept waiting for the plot to develop or for something to happen. Matt Damon is one of my favorite actors but i wanted to ask him to go away and take his movie with him. If there was a plot and point to this movie, We missed it. Hope he has some other films in the works for the future or its back to Hot Dogs and Baked Beans for awhile.
Rating:  -
This is a very funny film and Matt Damon is perfect as a goofy-yet-conniving corporate schlub. What "The Informat!" is not, is slapstick. It didn't need to be . . playing the material straight was the right choice. The combo of Mark Whitacre's sincere cluelessness ("I'll bring down the company and then get to run it!"), hubris, and a stunning ability to believe his own whoppers was absurd . . and fascinating because it's all (or mostly) true.
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This is one of those movies that looks hilarious in the trailer, but really isn't all that funny when you actually sit down and watch it. I'd give "The Informant" only 2.5 stars if Amazon would allow it. The acting is good but the script itself is kind of lacking. This could have been a much funnier story, but it's really not humorous at all.
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I had never seen a crappy Matt Damon movie until now. This is definitely his worst! I couldn't make it through the whole movie it was that bad. Can you say BORING? It could have been much better but like another review said, I'm not sure if it was supposed to be a comedy or what. I checked the guide on my cable, and this movie was rated 3 stars. How in the **** can that be? lol Better luck next time Matt!
Rating:  -
This is an awesome movie, I can't believe the amount of poor reviews it is getting. If you haven't seen it, give it a try. The script is amazing. I enjoyed the movie so much I had to see if it was available on Blu-ray. Matt Damon does an awesome job and the twist at the end is as mind blowing as Inception.
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