The Informant

Steven Soderbergh's latest, "The Informant!," comes off like the smartest, funniest kid in the class - a wiz at everything he does from physics to basketball, but somehow friendless. His sin lies in being too clever for his own good and...

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...be called The Informant!, given that the director's primary tactic is to keep the audience as ill-informed as possible. Based on a true story, the film gets going in the early 1990s, in the offices of an Illinois agri-chemical corporation.

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In The Informant, Steven Soderbergh achieves a very delicate balancing act. The film's story is so bizarre in a banal sort of a way that it constantly threatens to collapse into farce, but Soderbergh and his leading man Matt Damon never...

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...Bob Herndon (Joel McHale) prepare Mark for a role as a snitch, unaware that the family man is leading them all up the garden path. The Informant! is a fascinating and at times amusing true story about an everyman who pulled the wool over the...

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...100 days and ended up on medication. This time the Bourne star says that gaining around 30 pounds to play whistle-blower Mark Whitacre in The Informant! was slightly more enjoyable. "I felt terrific, I really did love it," he reveals. "The...

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...a populist slamdown against big business, he revisits the topic in more droll fashion. The Informant! - that exclamation mark underlines the film's playful intentions - hooks him up once more with his Ocean's 11 star Matt Damon. It's a...

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...the week's key releases: the Coen brothers' fascinating, brilliantly acted A Serious Man, Matt Damon in Steven Soderbergh's "too clever" The Informant! and the film that teen girls everywhere have been waiting for, The Twilight Saga: New...

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...HBO feature "The Half Life of Timofey Berezin" (a.k.a. "PU-239"), on which Soderbergh was an executive producer. And now they were working on "The Informant!," which was written by Burns and being directed by Soderbergh. "I wondered, am I...

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Matt Damon's latest role, as a big-business whistleblower in The Informant, is a world away from the musclebound mayhem of the Bourne thrillers. The Informant!, the latest film from Steven Soderbergh, is based on a story so bizarre it...

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