Additional information for The Informant!, which has a domestic theatrical release set for September 18, 2009. The film is being distributed by Warner Bros Pictures and has not yet been rated. The Informant! has a total running time of 108 minutes.
R
USA
15A
Ireland
K-3
Finland
T
Italy
7
Switzerland
PG
Canada
7
Iceland
M
Australia
NC-16
Singapore
15
UK
G
Japan
M/12
Portugal
PG-13
Philippines
12
Germany
AL
Netherlands
IIB
Hong Kong
B
Mexico
Btl
Sweden
15
South Korea
A
Norway
6
Austria
A
Denmark
U
France
13
Argentina
18
Malaysia
10
Brazil
108min
El desinformante
Argentina
El desinformante
Mexico
El desinformante
Uruguay
El desinformante
Venezuela
Informátor!
Czech Republic
Informátor!
Slovakia
¡El soplón!
Spain
Alithofani psemata
Greece
Az informátor!
Hungary
Der Informant!
Germany
Doušnik!
Croatia
Ilmiantaja!
Finland
Infômanto!
Japan
Informatorius
Lithuania
Intrygant
Poland
Ispiyoncu!
Turkey
L'infiltré!
Canada
O Delator!
Portugal
O Desinformante!
Brazil
Spicelj!
Slovenia
The Informant!
France
September 07, 2009
Italy
September 09, 2009
France
September 11, 2009
Canada
September 17, 2009
Finland
September 18, 2009
Canada
September 18, 2009
Italy
September 18, 2009
USA
September 20, 2009
Greece
September 25, 2009
Spain
September 30, 2009
France
October 01, 2009
Greece
October 15, 2009
New Zealand
October 16, 2009
Brazil
October 16, 2009
Mexico
October 16, 2009
South Africa
October 19, 2009
UK
October 21, 2009
Philippines
October 22, 2009
Portugal
October 23, 2009
Finland
October 27, 2009
Netherlands
October 29, 2009
Malaysia
October 29, 2009
Netherlands
October 29, 2009
Slovenia
October 30, 2009
Bulgaria
October 30, 2009
Denmark
October 30, 2009
Iceland
October 30, 2009
Norway
October 30, 2009
Uruguay
November 05, 2009
Czech Republic
November 05, 2009
Germany
November 05, 2009
Ukraine
November 06, 2009
India
November 06, 2009
Poland
November 18, 2009
Belgium
November 19, 2009
Singapore
November 19, 2009
Slovakia
November 20, 2009
Ireland
November 20, 2009
Lithuania
November 20, 2009
UK
November 26, 2009
Hungary
December , 2009
Egypt
December 03, 2009
Australia
December 03, 2009
Kuwait
December 05, 2009
Japan
December 11, 2009
Sweden
January 15, 2010
Panama
January 28, 2010
Syria
February 19, 2010
Venezuela
March 02, 2010
Russia
April 14, 2010
Argentina
No taglines exist for this title.
The U.S. government decides to go after an agri-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president turned informant Mark Whitacre.
As the film opens, Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon) is explaining that nearly everything people eat contains corn and that his company, ADM, is involved in almost all meals. He is overseeing ADMs production of lysine, an additive used in the commercial livestock industry, but there are problems and the company is losing money. Whitacre reveals that ADM is the victim of a saboteur and his source is a Japanese colleague who wants $10 million to name names. As a result, ADM asks the FBI to intervene and tap Whitacres business line at his home. When the agent Brian Shepard arrives at Whitacres house to install the recording device, Whitacre is prodded by his wife Ginger to tell the truth. Whitacre reluctantly asks to speak with Brian in the agents car because he believes that ADM has likely bugged the house and reveals to the agent that ADM has been engaged in price fixing with Japanese and Korean lysine producers. Brian informs his superiors that ADM is engaging in rampant corporate crime, but when ADM realizes that the FBI has in fact tapped more than just Whitacres business line, the company refuses further cooperation with the FBI and orders Whitacre to stop working with Brian.Whitacre initially refuses to cooperate with the FBI and tells Brian that there is no longer any price fixing at the company, but Brian and another agent, Robert Herndon, confront him in a hotel and force him to admit that this isn't the case. Whitacre also admits at this point that he invented the story of the mole and the Japanese extortionist in order to take some heat off himself and his failure to produce results. Whitacre decides to work with the FBI and becomes an informant. Initially, Whitacre explains that he wants to do the right thing but later he admits that he wanted to eliminate the other executives at ADM and take his place as President of the entire company. Whitacre begins to record tapes at work and in meetings he eventually submits over 200 recordings to the FBI which he narrates in an amusing way. He also shows the wire to his maintenance man at home and says that hes Agent 0014 because he's twice as smart as James Bond 007. The FBI eventually records video of ADMs meetings with Japanese and Korean competitors with Whitacres help. The FBI is happy with the evidence that Whitacre supplies, but the Justice Department takes more convincing, though eventually everyone feels that the case against ADM is strong.As a result of Whitacres evidence and after two years of work, the FBI launches a massive raid on ADM, seizing files and computers. Whitacre, in an effort to avoid casting suspicion on him as the informant, is confronted by the FBI in a restaurant with fellow executive Terry. The FBI advises Whitacre to tell his company that he is cooperating with the government and to secure his own lawyer as opposed to one the company will offer him. Once the raid is over, Brian learns that Whitacre compromised the raid by warning his secretary and two colleagues but continue with the case. The morning after the raid, Whitacre accepts a company lawyer who spends all day with Whitacre listening to the story of his work as an informant. The company lawyer advises Whitacre to get his own attorney and together they inform several executives that Whitacre will be cooperating with the FBI.After the FBI raid, Whitacres story begins to unravel and his family is shunned by the corporate community. Whitacres new counsel is amazed by his story and advises him not to speak to anyone about the case. Somehow, the story is leaked to the Wall Street Journal and Whitacre continues to meet with the FBI agents Brian and Robert. Whitacre confesses to the agents that he has been taking kickbacks for several years the total amount Whitacre embezzles is never made clear in the film because he keeps changing his story, but the final figure he gives is over $11 million. In truth, Whitacre asked a colleague to set up a shell company that sent ADM bogus invoices that the company paid. The film does not clarify exactly how Whitacres scheme worked; probably because he has never explained the mechanism in detail himself. This revelation results in Whitacre losing his immunity.When confronted with evidence of his embezzlement, Whitacre loses control of himself and it becomes clear that he is suffering from Bipolar Disorder, and his diagnosis will eventually become his defense. It is revealed that the story Whitacre tells of how he was adopted by a wealthy man when he was young is false. Whitacre also fakes a kidnapping attempt in an effort to gain public sympathy and continues to speak to the media despite the advice of his attorneys. He parts ways with the legal counsel when they refuse to file a lawsuit against Brian Shepard for assault and when Whitacre refuses to accept a plea bargain for 3-5 years in prison. Whitacres new attorney is portrayed as the worse kind of ambulance chaser. He confronts the FBI with evidence that his client was assaulted by Brian, who supposedly hit Whitacre with a suitcase. In order to bolster his case, Whitacre forges a letter from his psychiatrist but no one is fooled. Whitacre is confronted by Brian, who asks him why he keeps lying. Whitacre replies that he doesnt know why and announces that he should go back to the hospital.The film flashes forward to Whitacres sentencing. Whitacre delivers a meandering statement and admits that he is now on medication. The judge, however, finds no connection between having Bipolar Disorder and committing so many counts of fraud. Whitacre spends nearly 9 years in prison, three times what the executives his tapes help convict serve. He petitions, with the help of Agent Robert, for a presidential pardon and admits that he embezzled money in case he lost his job at ADM as a result of working as an informant. It was his severance. It is also suggested that Whitacre embezzled money to compensate for funds he lost when scammed by scammed by a group in Nigeria in an advance fee fraud. The pardon is refused, but Whitacres evidence was invaluable to one of the largest price-fixing cases in history and the government was able to collect millions in fines. Were it not for the fraud activity, Whitacre would be regarded as a hero. In the final scene, Whitacre is released from prison and is met by Ginger. The viewers are told that Whitacre is currently the COO of Cypress Systems.
Steven Soderbergh
Director(s)
Scott Z. Burns
Kurt Eichenwald
Writer(s)
Howard Braunstein
producer
George Clooney
executive producer
Kurt Eichenwald
producer
Jennifer Fox
producer
Gregory Jacobs
producer
Michael Jaffe
producer
Michael London
executive producer
Michael Polaire
co-producer
Jeff Skoll
executive producer
Producer(s)
Marvin Hamlisch
Composer(s)
Mark Whitacre
Matt Damon
Alexander Whitacre (as Lucas Carroll)
Lucas McHugh Carroll
Kirk Schmidt
Eddie Jemison
Liz Taylor
Rusty Schwimmer
Discouraged Foreman
Craig Ricci Shaynak
Mick Andreas
Tom Papa
Terry Wilson
Rick Overton
Ginger Whitacre
Melanie Lynskey
Mark Cheviron (as Tom Wilson)
Thomas F. Wilson
FBI Special Agent Brian Shepard
Scott Bakula
Sid Hulse
Scott Adsit
FBI Special Agent Kate Medford
Ann Dowd
FBI Special Agent Dean Paisley
Allan Havey
Rusty Williams
Howie Johnson
FBI Special Agent Bob Herndon
Joel McHale
Kid at Pool #1
Nick Craig
Kid at Pool #2
Cody Puckett
Marty Allison
Andrew Daly
Budweiser Client Representative
David Campbell
Budweiser Receptionist
Carolyn R. Feltner
Zurich Bank Security Officer (as Jean-Pierre Gillain)
J.P. Gillain
Zurich Bank Receptionist
Elena Eustache
Peter Dreyer (as Hans Tester)
John Hans Tester
Reinhard Richter
Ludger Pistor
Hirokazu Ikeda
Rome Kanda
Kazutoshi Yamada
Yoshio Be
Kanji Mimoto
Raymond Ma
Philippe Rollier
Hervé Deschamps
Alain Crouy
Pascal Ifri
Robin Mann
Ann Cusack
Joon Mo Suh
Dann Seki
James Mutchnik
Jayden Lund
FBI Agent at Raid
Chic Daniel
Visiting Client
Joe Chrest
Phone Agent
J.D. Mathein
FBI Special Agent Ken Temples
William Marsh
Dwayne Andreas
Tom Smothers
Aubrey Daniel
Clancy Brown
John Dowd
Bob Zany
James Epstein
Tony Hale
Director(s)
Kurt Eichenwald
Writer(s)
producer
George Clooney
executive producer
Kurt Eichenwald
producer
Jennifer Fox
producer
Gregory Jacobs
producer
Michael Jaffe
producer
Michael London
executive producer
Michael Polaire
co-producer
Jeff Skoll
executive producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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