Synopsis
A collection of intersecting short stories set in early 1980s Los Angeles, depicts a week in the lives of an assortment of socially alienated, mainly well-off characters who numb their sense of emptiness with casual sex, violence, and drugs.
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Cast
- Billy Bob ThorntonWilliam
- Kim BasingerLaura
- Jon FosterGraham
- Amber HeardChristie
- Winona RyderCheryl Moore
- Mickey RourkePeter
- Rhys IfansRoger
- Chris IsaakLes Price
- Austin NicholsMartin
- Lou Taylor PucciTim Price
Recommendations
- 63
Chicago Sun-Times
If The Informers doesn't sound to you like a pleasant time at the movies, you are right. To repeat: dread, despair and doom. It is often however repulsively fascinating and has been directed by Gregor Jordan as a soap opera from hell, with good sets and costumes. - 58
The A.V. Club
Though The Informers is by no means great--nor wholly true to the vision of Ellis, who co-wrote the screenplay with Nicholas Jarecki--moments sprinkled throughout the film capture Ellis' particular mix of flip yuppie satire and lived-in paranoia better than any big-screen version of his work to date. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
One long wallow in sordidness. - 50
Variety
The film is banal by obvious intent. The only question, as with other Ellis adaptations including "American Psycho," is whether auds will appreciate the aggressively shallow depiction of an aggressively shallow milieu, or mistake the pic's implicit critique for the crime itself. - 38
ReelViews
The Informers is nihilism for nihilism's sake; a bleak and borderline-unwatchable collage of misanthropes, self-absorbed a**holes, and pathetic weaklings as they struggle to move forward during the early 1980s in Los Angeles. - 38
Charlotte Observer
It's a terrible muddle unless you take it as a satire on the Age of Ellis, the Jacqueline Susann for that Flock of Seagulls era. That way, the unintentional laughs seem almost ironic. - 38
Philadelphia Inquirer
Another tale of Tinseltown drugs, sex and excess - has transferred itself to the screen with mind-boggling, laugh-inciting horribleness. - 25
Miami Herald
Here's what is bad: this movie.
