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Release Date: 2009

Cast: Richard Steven Horvitz, Matt Damon, Ludger Pistor, Melanie Lynskey, Tony Hale, Patton Oswalt, Scott Adsit, Thomas F. Wilson, Paul F. Tompkins, Eddie Jemison, Hans Tester, Lucas McHugh Carroll ...MORE

Cast: Richard Steven Horvitz, Matt Damon, Ludger Pistor, Melanie Lynskey, Tony Hale, Patton Oswalt, Scott Adsit, Thomas F. Wilson, Paul F. Tompkins, Eddie Jemison, Hans Tester, Lucas McHugh Carroll, Scott Bakula, Clancy Brown, Tom Papa, Joel McHale, Allan Havey, Gene Fojtik ...LESS

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The Informant! is a 2009 American fact-based comedy-drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh. It depicts Mark Whitacre's involvement as a whistle blower in the lysine price-fixing conspiracy of the mid-1990s as described in the 2000 nonfiction book The Informant, by journalist Kurt Eichenwald. The script was written by Scott Z. Burns, and the film stars Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale and Melanie Lynskey. Mark Whitacre, a rising star at Decatur, Illinois based Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in the early 1990s, blows the whistle on the company’s price-fixing tactics at the urging of... MORE

The Informant! is a 2009 American fact-based comedy-drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh. It depicts Mark Whitacre's involvement as a whistle blower in the lysine price-fixing conspiracy of the mid-1990s as described in the 2000 nonfiction book The Informant, by journalist Kurt Eichenwald. The script was written by Scott Z. Burns, and the film stars Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale and Melanie Lynskey. Mark Whitacre, a rising star at Decatur, Illinois based Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in the early 1990s, blows the whistle on the company’s price-fixing tactics at the urging of his wife Ginger. One night in November 1992, Whitacre confesses to FBI special agent Brian Shepard that ADM executives — including Whitacre himself — had routinely met with competitors to fix the price of lysine, an additive used in the commercial livestock industry. Whitacre secretly gathers hundreds of hours of video and audio over several years to present to the FBI. He assists in gathering evidence by clandestinely taping the company’s activity in business meetings at various locations around the globe such as Tokyo, Paris, Mexico City, and Hong Kong, eventually collecting enough evidence of LESS