"The Informant" ( eng. The Informant! ) Is a feature film by Stephen Soderbergh [4] in the genre of a thriller with elements of black comedy , shot from the book of the same name Journalist Kurt Eichenwald [5] . The script for the film was written by Scott Burns. The main roles in the film are played by Matt Damon , Melanie Linsky , Scott Bakula and Joel McHale .
| Informant | |
|---|---|
| The Informant! | |
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| Genre | thriller black comedy |
| Producer | Steven soderberg |
| Producer | Jennifer fox Gregory Jacobs |
| Author script | Scott Burns |
| In the main cast | Matt Damon Scott Bakula Joel McHale Melanie Linsky Thomas wilson |
| Operator | Steven soderberg |
| Composer | Marvin hamlish |
| Film company | Warner brothers Participatingant media |
| Duration | |
| Budget | $ 22 million [1] |
| Fees | 41 771 168 [1] |
| A country |  USA |
| Tongue | English |
| Year | , and |
| IMDb | |
Content
Story
The film tells about Mark Whitacre , Ph.D. from the Ivy League , a rising star in the agro-industrial company Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), who in the early 1990s made a fuss about the company's practice of negotiating product prices [6] [7] .
One night, in early November 1992, this senior ADM officer told the FBI agent Brian Shepard that ADM employees, including Whitaker himself, occasionally meet with competitors to set a contract price for lysine , a food supplement. As the highest-ranking official in US history to become an informant, Whitaker secretly collected hundreds of hours of audio and video for several years to give to the FBI [6] [8] [9] .
He helped gather evidence by discreetly recording the cartel’s activities at business meetings in various places around the world, such as Tokyo , Paris , Mexico City and Hong Kong . Over the entire period of Whitaker’s secret activity, which lasted for almost three years, the FBI received evidence of crimes committed by senior officials who set contractual prices for food additives, which at that time was the most widespread case of price collusion. However, not everything is so simple in the biography of Whitaker himself. The investigation reveals the whole truth [6] [8] [9] .
As the plot develops, it turns out that Mark organized the theft of company funds and used the FBI as a “cover”. The final of the film hints that the pretty bald-headed main character is a millionaire.
Cast
- Matt Damon - Mark Whitaker
- Scott Bakula - Brian Shepard
- Melanie Linsky - Ginger Whitaker
- Thomas Francis Wilson - Marc Cheviron
- Joel McHale - Robert Herndon
- Allan Heavy - Dean Paisley
- Jimmy Pardo - Paul Tomkins
- Scott Edtsit - Sid Hulse
- Eddie Jamison - Kirk Schmidt
- Candy Clark - Mark Whitaker's Mother
Making a movie
In 2002, after completing work on the film “Ocean’s Eleven Friends,” Stephen Soderberg announced his intention to film the book by Kurt Eichenwald in "Informant" . In an interview with Fistshowing, director Steven Soderbergh said that the book was written very “cinematically,” since the author, while maintaining the intrigue, hides from the reader a number of important facts about the protagonist [10] . The script was written by former Burns Times journalist Scott Burns. [7]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 “Informant” on the Box Office Mojo website
- ↑ http://nmhh.hu/dokumentum/158984/2009_filmbemutatok_osszes.xls
- ↑ http://www.kinokalender.com/film7277_der-informant.html
- ↑ Hollywood.com - The Informant
- ↑ Aurora Advisors - Tale of the Tapes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Decatur Herald and Review - Behind the inside man: Mark Whitacre, talks about 'The Informant,' his time in prison and moving forward
- ↑ 1 2 Tim Cain . Don't expect "Informant" hobnobbing (Eng.) , Decatur Herald and Review (March 19, 2008).
- ↑ 1 2 Feedstuffs Magazine - Whitacre paid ultimate price 1 , 42 , 43
- ↑ 1 2 CBS TV 47 Fresno - Fresno company connected to Matt Damon movie (link unavailable )
- ↑ TIFF Interview: The Informant Director Steven Soderbergh