Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comic con sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. The informant blows the whistle on dvd and bluray on february 23rd dec 18, 2009. Everything you need to know about informant movie 20. Playful tale of corporate misdeeds may interest some teens. Gibraltar, also known as border informant is a 20 french crime thriller film written and directed by julien leclercq. The movie concerns itself with mark whitacre damon, an employee of adm, a food production company. Aug 22, 20 winner of best documentary at the 2012 doc nyc festival, informant is a fascinating, gripping portrait of brandon darby, a radical activist turned fbi informant who has been alternately vilified. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. Matt damon, scott bakula, melanie lynskey, joel mchale. Director steven soderbergh is filming the informant, an upcoming dark comedy thriller film, which is based on the 2000 nonfiction book of the same name written by kurt eichenwald, a former journalist for the new york times. Nov 19, 2009 a n exclamation mark on the end of a title is a worrying sign. Take a look at all the details from this new matt damon film in both formats. But during the investigation, whitacre reveals himself as a man of bewildering contradictions.
Mark whitacre was the highestranking executive in u. Lionel bart doubled the pain with two, for his 1965 robin hood stage musical twang the critical consensus in favour of baz. The characters background is shrouded in mystery, with intelligence officers seeking to uncover the truth about his past by working with him. The informant 2009 official movie trailer hd youtube. You never know where you stand with steven soderbergh, but you cannot accuse him of resting on his laurels or. But nothing has prepared him for the job he is about to undertake being a spy for the fbi. Had he opted for a straightforward retelling, the informant. While were about it, it is also a film that catches steven. This movie is also about to what lengths government officials are willing to believe such unsavory informants even as these informants continue to flagrantly break.
A rising star at agriindustry giant archer daniels midland adm, whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Wearing one of the most unflattering moustaches ever seen on a major movie star, matt damon stars as mark whitacre, a bigtime corporate executive who decides to tell. After all, whitacre isnt your average whistleblower. The serious story behind the informant the informant opened in theaters on friday. Timothy dalton, john kavanagh, sean mcginley, anthony brophy, cary elwes, maria lennon, frankie mccafferty, stuart graham, gary lydon. Melanie lynskey plays mark whitacres supportive wife, who is the one who first convinces him to become a government informant. Coming to it on its own terms however this is an engaging story told with a comic air that works and makes the film as entertaining as it is interesting. In 1992, the fbi stumbled upon mark whitacre played by matt damon, a top executive at adm food corporation, who was willing to act as an informant on a vast international pricefixing conspiracy. A promising pitch and a catchy setting make for a rather mediocre movie in the informant. Burns, the film stars matt damon as the titular informant named mark whitacre, as well as scott bakula, joel mchale and melanie lynskey. Mcinnes plays a suburban dad who works as a police informant for a federal investigative agency. In 2005, darby became an overnight hero when he traveled to katrinadevastated new orleans and braved toxic floodwaters to rescue a friend stranded in the ninth ward. The trailer for the informant what was mark whitacre thinking.
In the informant, while director jim mcbride and screenwriter nicholas meyer lay claim to evenhandedness and paler shades of gray, we are browbeaten into believing that only the english are. And while the film likely takes some liberties with whitacres story, it also uses his unlikely tale to reinforce some timehonored truths. The informant 1997 caught and grilled by a brutal policeman timothy dalton and a british lieutenant cary elwes, an ira assassin anthony brophy reluctantly agrees to testify against cohorts. Director julien leclercqs tale of a snitch working for the french border patrol has a smart premise, but fails to. Even as he exposes his companys multinational pricefixing conspiracy to the fbi, whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion. It is based on a true story first described by journalist kurt eichenwald in his 2000 nonfiction book of the same title. Hes bumbling, indiscreet, and grandiose at least in this take on his story. Based on a bizarrely true story, this is the tale of mark whitacre, a young executive at a food processing corporation who one day tells the fbi that he would like to blow the whistle on illegal activity at his workplace. Even as he exposes his companys multinational price. Sep 16, 2009 all is explained, sort of, in the informant. He is an honest man whose integrity is called into question when it is revealed that whitacre is also spectacularly corrupt.
The film is based on a true story about an investigation into pricefixing by massive conglomerate archer daniels midland. The only film with access to darby since his public confession, informant meticulously constructs a picture of his life before and after the death threats through interviews and tense. The informant is a 1997 cable tv movie produced by showtime, starring cary elwes and timothy dalton. Although the movie is sometimes played for laughs, the real story was no laughing matter. Sonic le film sonic the hedgehog bad boys for life. When the film starts, you sympathize with whitacre but by the time it ends, youre laughing out loud at the incredulity of the situations and the complete absurdity of it all and yet its all true. The late late show with james corden recommended for you. With the help of whitacre, the fbi made hundreds of tapes of adm executives making pricefixing deals with their rivals from asia and canada, all. Brooding thriller with flavour of the french connection 2. Unwillingly pressured into working as an informant against the illegal pricefixing activities of his company, whitacre gradually adopts the idea that hes a true. The case was unusual, what with whitacre having manic depression and the numerous twists and turns, so.
As soderbergh lovingly peels away veil after veil of deception, the film develops into an unexpected human comedy. Mark whitacre matt damon, a rising star at agriindustry giant archer daniels midland adm, suddenly turns whistleblower. With william mcinnes, anita hegh, maddi newling, leeanna walsman. By nicolas rapold in the septemberoctober 2009 issue whistleblower mark whitacre matt damon would not be out of place in a coen brothers capera bumbling manicamerican with an eye on the prize and a silly mustachebut instead hes the perplexing subject of steven soderberghs strange new film.
Unwillingly pressured into working as an informant against the illegal pricefixing activities of his company, whitacre gradually adopts the idea that hes a true secret agent. With matt damon, tony hale, patton oswalt, lucas mchugh carroll. Scott bakula plays the lead fbi agent on the adm case. But before all that can happen, the fbi needs evidence, so whitacre. Informant disambiguation the informer disambiguation this disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title the informant. Matt damon acts out his film career w james corden duration. It was directed by jim mcbride and written by nicholas meyer based upon the book field of. The informant movie is starring matt damon, scott bakula, and joel mchale. Sep 20, 2009 the serious story behind the informant the informant opened in theaters on friday. The moderate rise and tragic fall of a new york fixer film complet francais le jardin secret film complet streaming watch out film complet streaming hd harley quinn birds of prey streaming sans inscription. A rising star at agriindustry giant archer daniels midland adm, whitacre matt damon suddenly turns whistleblower.
Well done as a pseudofarce, complete with a score by marvin hamlish. When financial pressures escalate, marc duval gilles lellouche, mesrine, a frenchman expatriated to gibraltar, becomes a spy for french customs on the. The film is based on the 2000 non fiction book the informant by journalist kurt eichanwald and tells the reallife story of mark whitacre, a whistleblowing executive who informed on the dirty tricks of the agricultural company he worked for. Whitacre is a chemist at archer daniels midland, a big name corn manufacturer.
Whats the story a protrait of brandon darby, a radical activist turned fbi informant who has been alternately vilified and deified. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the. After being forced to lie by his bosses, mark wants to atone for his crimes. After claiming that a japanese competitor has implanted a mole within the business, whitacre is questioned by the fbi. Voir en the informant 1997 vf gratuit film complet. Filmstoon film streaming hd vf, film gratuit complet en. A rising star at agriindustry giant archer daniels midland adm, whitacre suddenly turns.
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