The Informant!

Year:

2009

Duration:

108 min

Genres:

Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller

IMDB rate:

6.5

Director:

Steven Soderbergh

Awards:

Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 1 win & 14 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2009-09-18

Filming Locations: Blue Mound, Illinois, USA

Earnings

Budget: $21,000,000

Opening Weekend: $10,464,314 (USA) (20 September 2009)

Gross: $33,313,582 (USA) (13 December 2009)

Cast

Actor

Character

Joel McHale

The Informant!

J.P. Gillain

The Informant!

Matt Damon

Mark Whitacre

Lucas McHugh Carroll

Alexander Whitacre

Eddie Jemison

Kirk Schmidt

Rusty Schwimmer

Liz Taylor

Craig Ricci Shaynak

Discouraged Foreman

Tom Papa

Mick Andreas

Rick Overton

Terry Wilson

Melanie Lynskey

Ginger Whitacre

Thomas F. Wilson

Mark Cheviron

Scott Bakula

FBI Special Agent Brian Shepard

Scott Adsit

Sid Hulse

Ann Dowd

FBI Special Agent Kate Medford

Allan Havey

FBI Special Agent Dean Paisley

Howie Johnson

Rusty Williams

Nick Craig

Kid at Pool #1

Cody Puckett

Kid at Pool #2

Andrew Daly

Marty Allison

David Campbell

Budweiser Client Representative

Carolyn R. Feltner

Budweiser Receptionist

Elena Eustache

Zurich Bank Receptionist

John Hans Tester

Peter Dreyer

Ludger Pistor

Reinhard Richter

Rome Kanda

Hirokazu Ikeda

Yoshio Be

Kazutoshi Yamada

Raymond Ma

Kanji Mimoto

Hervé Deschamps

Philippe Rollier

Pascal Ifri

Alain Crouy

Ann Cusack

Robin Mann

Dann Seki

Joon Mo Suh

Jayden Lund

James Mutchnik

Chic Daniel

FBI Agent at Raid

Joe Chrest

Visiting Client

J.D. Mathein

Phone Agent

William Marsh

FBI Special Agent Ken Temples

Tom Smothers

Dwayne Andreas

Clancy Brown

Aubrey Daniel

Bob Zany

John Dowd

Tony Hale

James Epstein

Richard Steven Horvitz

Bob Zaideman

Tara Barrett

Reporter #1

Tim Cain

Reporter #2

Ken Frye

Reporter #3

Huey Freeman

Reporter #4

Brian Gallivan

Ron Henkoff

Daniel Hagen

Scott Roberts

Patton Oswalt

Ed Herbst

Samantha Albert

Mary Spearing

Jimmy Brogan

Dr. Derek Miller

Paul F. Tompkins

FBI Special Agent Anthony D'Angelo

Adam Paul

FBI Special Agent Michael Bassett

Wayne Pére

Sheldon Zenner

Scott England

Local News Anchor (as Scot England)

Joshua Funk

FBI Special Agent Robert Grant

Candy Clark

Mark Whitacre's Mother

Frank Welker

Mark Whitacre's Father

Larry Clarke

Whitacre's Second Attorney

Dick Smothers

Judge Harold Baker

Steve Seagren

Correctional Officer

Sage Adams

Jason Ripley (uncredited)

Roy Allen III

Office Manager (uncredited)

Rj Buckler

Extra holding boom pole in crowd of reporters (uncredited)

Emma Chandler

Mick Andreas' Assistant (uncredited)

Dona Ellis

Bartender (uncredited)

Nichole Fischer

Patron in airport (uncredited)

Gene Fojtik

Lawyer

James Gianoulakis

Airport Traveler (uncredited)

Christopher Guetig

Office Clerk (uncredited)

Joe Hammerstone

Airport Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

Tabby Hanson

Sunt

Troy Hayes

New Home Owner (uncredited)

Richard Hoffman Jr.

Payroll (uncredited)

Bill Ibrahim

Attorney on EL (uncredited)

Jordan Kirkwood

European Executive (uncredited)

Don Kress

Lawyer

BJ Lange

Airline Passenger (uncredited)

Dan Latham

CTA Passenger (uncredited)

Ted LeBlang

Country Club Dinner Guest (uncredited)

Allen Marsh

Airport Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

Joseph Mazurk

Federal Plaza Lawyer

Elizabeth Zephyrine McDonough

Sweater Girl (uncredited)

Cameron Potter

Businessman (uncredited)

Mallory Scott

Business Traveler (uncredited)

Gary Sedlock

Movie Goer (uncredited)

Malik Simmons

Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

E.J. Snyder

Golfer (uncredited)

Jaxon Stanford

Businessman Walking Thru Airport (uncredited)

Jani Vorwerk

Waitress (uncredited)

Erik A. Williams

Airport Traveler (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Whitacre mentions watching a show in which a character calls home and hears himself pick up the phone. This was the plot of a 1985 episode of The New Twilight Zone named "Shatterday", written by Harlan Ellison, directed by Wes Craven and with Bruce Willis as the guy with a double.

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In an NPR radio interview, Matt Damon said that Steven Soderbergh, to get Mark Whitacre's final apology to the judge just right, directed Damon to perform the lines as if he were accepting an Academy Award. (Damon said it was an example of "perfect direction".)

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Frank Welker, primarily known as a voice actor, appears in this film as Mark Whitacre's father. It's his first on-camera role in a live-action film in 37 years.

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Goofs

When they are playing golf in Hawaii. The close up of the golf spikes that are being worn are Nikes. Nike did not have a presence in the golf industry when the film was taking place. Their entrance into the golf world did not happen until around 1996.

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When Mike meets with the FBI agents after they discovered he informed Schmidt of the raid he shows up in a Mercedes SL-Coupe (R129 chassis) which is correct for the period, but the wheels are Mercedes Benz style 530 which were not released until the 2005 Mercedes Benz S-Class (W221 chassis).

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The film takes place from 1992-1994, yet the cars have Illinois license plates that first appeared in 2001.

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Quotes

Mark Whitacre: Paranoid is what people who are trying to take advantage of you call you to get you to drop your guard!

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Mark Whitacre: [voiceover] We took the kids one year to the Renaissance Festival in Indiana. You get to be the White Knight. The kids get to ride a horse and joust against the forces of darkness with a helmet on. And the White Knight always wins - the forces of darkness fall onto an old mattress. Someone plays a Lute and plays a song from Medieval Times. The day we went it was maybe 90 degrees out and the heat and humidity index I can't even remember what the radio said. We were next in line and the mare collapsed. Went down in a heap. Ginger was eating Ye Olde Drumstick and she dropped it in the dirt. The kids were crying. I remember this farmer saying he had a gun in his truck. Just like that. From the White Knight to a gun in the truck. They had everyone turn their backs before they put the animal down, but even if you couldn't see you could still hear. How do you get that back? How does that get to be fair?

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Mark Whitacre: One of the Japanese guys told me a story. This lysine salesman is in a meeting with someone from ConAgra or some other company, I don't know. And the client leans forward and says "I have the same tie as you, only the pattern is reversed." And then he drops dead, face down on the table. Alive and then dead. Brain aneurism. Maybe everyone has a sentence like that, a little time bomb. "I have the same tie as you, only the pattern's reversed." Dead. The last thing they'll ever say.

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Faq

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How closely does the movie follow the book?

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Those who have both read the book and seen the movie say that the biggest difference is that the movie has been made into a comedy, whereas the book was not.

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How much sex, violence, and profanity are in this movie?

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For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for The Informant! can be found here.

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A Note Regarding Spoilers

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The following FAQ entries may contain spoilers. Only the biggest ones (if any) will be covered with spoiler tags. Spoiler tags have been used sparingly in order to make the page more readable.

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