Synopsis
A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark 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.
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Cast
- Matt DamonMark Whitacre
- Lucas McHugh CarrollAlexander Whitacre
- Eddie JemisonKirk Schmidt
- Rusty SchwimmerLiz Taylor
- Craig Ricci ShaynakDiscouraged Foreman
- Tom PapaMick Andreas
- Rick OvertonTerry Wilson
- Melanie LynskeyGinger Whitacre
- Thomas F. WilsonMark Cheviron
- Scott BakulaBrian Shepard
Recommendations
- 75
Premiere
A comic tour de force from Damon, who gained 30lbs and sports an unflattering moustache as the dishonest and delusional Whitacre. But it’s a performance that never loses sight of the man behind the lies. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
In The Informant!, that brain -- screwy and yet capable of doing important undercover work -- free-associates like Ellen DeGeneres on a swing through Walmart. Cute, but as even Agent 86 would say in "Get Smart": Missed it by that much. - 70
The New Yorker
By the end, Soderbergh’s movie subverts common belief far more effectively than some of the fantasy movies knocking around this summer. It’s a vertiginous experience that grows increasingly hilarious, and the joke is on us. - 67
Austin Chronicle
Maybe Soderbergh felt as though he already did a straight-ahead version of this story with "Erin Brockovich" and therefore decided to revamp the tune in the key of Richard Lester. - 60
Variety
Amusingly eccentric rather than outright funny. - 60
Time
The Informant! may end up closer to the non-starters. Its lunacy is too deadpan, and its denouement too drawn out, to appeal to those who liked the Bourne movies, or, for that matter, the Gore. But it's worth seeing, and a salutary achievement. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
The whole film, a comedy about crime and mental illness, seems at war with itself. - 40
New York Magazine (Vulture)
This is yet another of Soderbergh’s “exercises in style,” which means he has one big idea and sticks to it. He makes the space shallow and ugly (faces are bathed in orange) and adds groovy sixties titles and Marvin Hamlisch music.
