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 What was Mark Whitacre thinking? A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), 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. But before all that can happen, the FBI needs evidence, so Whitacre eagerly agrees to wear a wire and carry a hidden tape recorder in his briefcase, imagining himself as a kind of de facto secret agent. Unfortunately for the FBI, their lead witness hasn't been quite so forthcoming about helping himself to the corporate coffers. Whitacre's ever-changing account frustrates the agents and threatens the case against ADM as it becomes almost impossible to decipher what is real and what is the product of Whitacre's rambling imagination. The film is based on the true story of the highest-ranking corporate whistleblower in U.S. history.
Based on the book The Informant: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald. It was one of the FBI's biggest secrets: a senior executive with America's most politically powerful corporation, Archer Daniels Midland, had become a confidential government witness, secretly recording a vast criminal conspiracy spanning five continents. Mark Whitacre, the promising golden boy of ADM, had put his career and family at risk to wear a wire and deceive his friends and colleagues. Using Whitacre and a small team of agents to tap into the secrets at ADM, the FBI discovered the company's scheme to steal millions of dollars from its own customers. But as the FBI and federal prosecutors closed in on ADM, using stakeouts, wiretaps, and secret recordings of illegal meetings around the world, they suddenly found that everything was not all that it appeared.
At the same time Whitacre was cooperating with the Feds while playing the role of loyal company man, he had his own agenda he kept hidden from everyone around him-his wife, his lawyer, even the FBI agents who had come to trust him with the case they had put their careers on the line for. Whitacre became sucked into his own world of James Bond antics, imperiling the criminal case and creating a web of deceit that left the FBI and prosecutors uncertain where the lies stopped and the truth began.
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Directed by
Steven Soderbergh
Starring
Matt Damon (Mark Whitacre)
Melanie Lynskey (Ginger Whitacre)
Patton Oswalt (Ed Herbst)
Scott Bakula (Brian Shepard)
Frank Welker (Mr. Whitacre)
Tom Wilson (Mark Cheviron)
Joel McHale (Robert Herndon)
Eddie Jemison (Kirk Schmidt)
Rusty Schwimmer (Elizabeth)
Ludger Pistor (Reinhard Richter)
Candy Clark (Mrs. Whitacre)
Tony Hale
Mike O'Malley
Clancy Brown
Richard Steven Horvitz (Bob Zaideman)
Scott Adsit (Sid Hulse)
Arden Myrin (Sarah Scott)
Andrew Daly
Elena Eustache (Swiss secretary)
Tom Papa (Mick Andreas)
Rick Overton (Terry Wilson)
Paul F. Tompkins (D'Angelo)
Wayne Péré (Sheldon Zenner)
Adam Paul
Larry Clarke (Bill Walker)
Jayden Lund (James Mutchnik)
Bob Zany (John Dowd)
Lindsey Trout (Waitress)
Allan Havey (Spcl. Agt. Dean Paisley)
Giota Trakas (Jogger)
Samantha Albert (Mary Spearing)
Raymond Ma (Mimoto)
Joshua Funk (Agent Grant)
Joseph Cintron (FBI Agent)
Daniel Hagen (Scott Roberts)
Rome Kanda (Ikeda)
Bil Dwyer (Lawyer)
Rodney Perry
Joseph Mazurk (Federal Plaza Lawyer)
Jean-Pierre Gillain (Marcus Galliker)
Stephen Sepher (Office Manager)
Michael C. McCarthy (Scott Kilman)
Tim Cain (Himself)
Don Kress (Federal Plaza Lawyer)
Steve Seagren (Correctional Officer)
Gene Fojtik (Lawyer)
Kathy Hanner (Waitress)
Scott England (Himself)
Howie Johnson (Rusty)
Brian Gallivan (Ronald Henkoff)
Hans Tester (Peter Dreyer)
Craig Ricci Shaynak (Discouraged Foreman)
Patricia Kakridas (Herself)
Mark Herzog (News Reporter)
Sean Streaty (Himself)
Jimmy Brogan (Psychiatrist)
Randy Bernales (Himself)
Guy Cozza (Security Guard Frank)
Matthew Francis (FBI Agent)
Written by
Scott Z. Burns
Kurt Eichenwald (book)
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The Informant! (DVD & Blu-ray)
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The Informant: A True Story
by Kurt Eichenwald
Rats in the Grain: The Dirty Tricks of the "Supermarket to the World" Archer Daniels Midland
by James B. Lieber
Merchants of Grain: The Power and Profits of the Five Giant Companies at the Center of the World's Food Supply
by Dan Morgan
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