The U.S. government decides to go after an agro-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre. Based on the true story of the highest-ranking corporate whistleblower in U.S. history.
11 September 1962
12 March 1946, Denver, Colorado, USA
19 September 1954, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
8 February 1964, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
12 September 1968, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
10 August 1954, Forest Hills, Queens, New York, USA
30 September 1970, West Point, New York, USA
25 August 1962, Chicago, Illinois, USA
20 November 1939, New York City, New York, USA
3 December 1965, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
16 March 1959, Recklinghausen, Germany
18 September 1948, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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.
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 is a good listener, too, always alert to the myriad ways his characters reveal, conceal and finally betray themselves in thought, word and deed.
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.
September 19, 2009
Mark's collection of bizarre behaviors doesn't add up to a character.
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.
September 24, 2014
After a parodic run-up, the film betrays a certain respect for this odd little creation.
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.
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 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.
