Steven Soderbergh’s ‘The Informant!’ Puts Matt Damon on a Wire

Submitted by PatrickMcD on September 18, 2009 - 6:16am.

CHICAGO – Behind every great fortune lies a great crime, as the saying goes. In director Steven Soderbergh’s “The Informant!,” he and Matt Damon carve out a satire where the “crime” becomes entangled with the larger issues of “justice.”

HollywoodChicago.com Oscarman rating: 3.5/5.0
Rating: 3.5/5.0

In this based-on-fact scenario, Damon plays Mark Whitacre, who famously cooperated in the 1990s with the FBI as a whistle blowing insider to the Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) price fixing scandal. As a high-level executive at ADM, Whitacre was privy to meetings – many that he set up – where the price of a basic food ingredient was fixed through international skullduggery.

’’The Informant! opens everywhere September 18th and features Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Melanie Lynskey, Patton Oswalt and Thomas F. Wilson, directed by Steven Soderbergh

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The FBI: Scott Bakula and Joel McHale as agents with Matt Damon in ‘The Informant!’
The FBI: Scott Bakula and Joel McHale as agents with Matt Damon in ‘The Informant!’
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