2008 · drama · crime · thriller
The Informers
Directed by Gregor Jordan1h 38m2008
A collection of intersecting short stories set in early 1980s Los Angeles, depicts a week in the lives of an assortment of socially alienated, mainly well-off characters who numb their sense of emptiness with casual sex, violence, and drugs.
Our read: The Informers (2008) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive drama · crime · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured drama / crime, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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