The Informant! (2009) poster
2009 · comedy · biography · corporate

The Informant!

Directed by Steven Soderbergh1h 48m2009
ElsewhereIMDb6.569kRT79%Metacritic66TMDB6.2980
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Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / biography, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.

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A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion.

Our read · The Informant! (2009) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive comedy · biography · corporate entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.

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You want a stranger-than-fiction corporate whistleblower story filtered through an unreliable, funny mind.

ends bittersweetit stays with youa rollercoastergrips by minute 8attention 4/5earns its lengthsubtitles: partial
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-updrug use

Skip it tonightYou need a trustworthy protagonist or get impatient with corporate boardroom procedural detail.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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