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The Informant - Matt Damon plays a crazy corporate executive with a mustache
Posted by Felix Ruttan on Thursday, September 17, 2009
Matt Damon in The Informant
Matt Damon, star of The Bourne Trilogy, is starring as Mark Whitacre in the upcoming Dark Comedy/Thriller The Informant.
Jonathan Decarlo @ Examiner points out:
“Not only did Whitacre suffer from manic depressive disorder while working with the FBI, but he also implicated himself as a corporate swindler during said informing and spent close to eight and a half years in a prison “camp” for multiple counts of fraud. It’s not rocket science why this story was made into a movie at this point in our political and financial climate.”
Mark Whitacre circa 2008
Totally bemused by this piece of info, I had to check Mark Whitacre’s Wikipedia entry. Sure enough, with dozens of citations and 2 books written about him (The Informant being the basis for the movie), this true story stands up on its own, albeit crazy, legs.
Directed by Steven Soderbergh (who also did “Sex, Lies, and Videotape“, directed the Ocean’s Trilogy, and recently, “The Girlfriend Experience“) The Informant is based on a true story; Mark Whitacre, vice president of Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), becomes the star witness and primary informant for an FBI investigation into ADM’s agriculture related price fixing.
Damon’s character, both naive and ambitious, really looks in over his head in this brand new trailer.
Check out more from The Informant- including still pictures, videos, news and more before it arrives in theaters on Oct. 9, 2009.
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