Archive for September 19th, 2009
Review – The Informant!
Director: Steven Soderbergh (Ocean’s Eleven, Erin Brockovich, Traffic)
Screenwriter: Scott Z. Burns (The Bourne Ultimatum), Kurt Eichenwald (book)
Cast: Matt Damon (Bourne trilogy), Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap series), Melanie Lynskey (Two and a Half Men series)
Length: 1h 48m
Synopsis: The FBI decides to go after an agri-business conglomerate with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, biochemist/executive turned informant Mark Whitacre (Damon). Mark spends over two years building a case for the FBI, but as soon as the investigation gets public there turn out to be more secrets than anyone could have guessed. Read the rest of this entry »