UBC Film Society

The Informant!

2009, Rated: PG, 108min

A semi-true story about Mark Whitacre, vice president turned whistleblower in a major price-fixing case. Matt Damon stars as the bi-polar informant in this dark comedy and triller by director Steven Soderbergh. Little does the FBI know that Whitacre has an agenda of his own. The film chronicles Whitacre's slow breakdown under the pressures of being undercover with the FBI and working against his own company.

Directed by
Steven Soderbergh
Written by
Scott Z. Burns, book by Kurt Eichenwald
Staring
Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, & Melanie Lynskey

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