Give it a try, but don't expect laugh out loud comedy not the ordinary kind that is. FAQ 2. Is "The Informant! How closely does the movie follow the book? Details Edit. Release date September 18, United States. United States. Official site Official site Germany. English German. Springfield, Illinois, USA. Warner Bros. Participant Groundswell Productions. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 48 minutes. Related news. Sep 20 The Guardian - Film News. Jul 6 The Film Stage. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content.
Top Gap. By what name was The Informant! See more gaps Learn more about contributing. Edit page. Hollywood Icons, Then and Now. See the gallery. The Rise of Will Smith. Watch the video. Then you've got Karen Silkwood, who blew the whistle in the nuclear industry Robert Thompson, a professor of popular culture at Syracuse University, said whistle-blowers make fascinating subjects to study because they're often figures who walk two sides of the line.
In film, they take on both the identity of a protagonist and an antagonist. Clashing definitions is one way to describe the farcical twist that ensues in the dark comedy when it becomes clear that Whitacre may not be as trustworthy as the audience was initially led to believe. He did things that were incredibly heroic and courageous and, at the same time, he wasn't completely forthright about everything that he was doing," Damon told Diane Sawyer this week on "Good Morning America. Whitacre narrates the story with what amounts to a deluded and unreliable interior monologue, calling himself Agent for being twice as crafty as James Bond Damon , who is a fan of "The Insider," a film about tobacco industry whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand, said he and director Soderbergh felt that movie already captured the tale of the whistle-blower in , and they wanted to capture something different.
Once the focus of the film changed into a more subjective piece, Damon said he did not want to meet Whitacre in person because the film's underlying satirical quality made it less "appropriate to do a rigorous character study.
While "The Informant" is just a film, could it bring more awareness to the whistleblower cause? Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. You want to make sure that whistle-blowers are protected. If they end up losing their jobs and not being protected, it has a chilling effect on other people's willingness to come forward. Several congressional hearings have been held about the provisions in the proposed legislation and Van Hollen said that though the bill initially failed in the Senate, the Oversight and Government Reform Full Committee is poised to take action this fall.
There were some objections. So now we are working to get the House bill passed," said the congressman. But he avoids turning Whitacre into a broad stereotype, prudently using overstated humor, and the character slowly, subtly becomes larger than life.
As the film unspools, we realize Whitacre is kind of a goofball, but he's no dummy, and eventually, we get a glimpse of the ego beneath his awful haircut, sandy mustache and suburban pudge. Whitacre, you see, is a guy who wants to feel important. He's a biochemist-turned-vice-president at Archer Daniels Midland, a massive agricultural-processing business. For years, he played ball with the company's dirty price-fixing schemes, but when the FBI came knocking to investigate some unrelated corporate skullduggery, he spilled his guts, donned a wire and piled up a case against ADM.
To reveal this is not a spoiler. Soderbergh wisely doesn't bog the film down with the inner workings of its spy story -- he intentionally blots out key moments of plot-propelling dialogue with kitschy music or Whitacre's extraordinarily funny non-sequitir voice-over narration, suggesting the whole point of the movie is not What Happens, but the utterly confounding, nearly anarchical manner in which this guy's brain functions.
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