The Informant!

2009PG 1 hr 48 min

Comedy Crime Drama

A quickly rising executive in an agri-business firm approaches the FBI to blow the whistle on his company's price-fixing schemes. He becomes the FBI's mole, gathering evidence and recording conversations, but he also turns out to be a twisted head case with unclear motivations, leading to many awkward situations.

Main Cast: Matt Damon
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: Scott Z. Burns • Kurt Eichenwald
Film Producer: Gregory Jacobs • Jennifer Fox • Michael Jaffe • Howard Braunstein • Kurt Eichenwald
Released By: Warner Bros.

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2:25 The Informant - Trailer posted on August 4, 2009 What was Mark Whitacre thinking? A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company's multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion. But before all that can happen, the FBI needs evidence, so Whitacre eagerly agrees to wear a wire and carry a hidden tape recorder in his briefcase, imagining himself as a kind of de facto secret agent. Unfortunately for the FBI, their lead witness hasn't been quite so forthcoming about helping himself to the corporate coffers. Whitacre's ever-changing account frustrates the agents and threatens the case against ADM as it becomes almost impossible to decipher what is real and what is the product of Whitacre's rambling imagination. Based on the true story of the highest-ranking corporate whistleblower in U.S. history.

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