Now Playing: “The Informant”
September 18, 2009 by Jeanne Dupuis
Filed under Movies
Matt Damon packed on 30lbs for his role in The Informant and from the early reviews, it sounds like it was worth it. The film hits theatres today and really resembles Erin Brokovich in a number of ways. The plot is based on the true story of bipolar whistleblower, Mark Whitacre (Damon), who believes he will become a hero when he turns in his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy.
image: Warner Bros.
He begins working with the FBI but he begins to believe that his level of importance is greater than it actually is and the agents are left wondering about how much of what Whitacre is telling them is truth and how much is the result of an overactive imagination.
Like Erin Brokovich, the movie features an underdog trying to take down a major corporation but Brokovich had legitimate complaints (and proof) where as Whitacre is a little questionable. The movie looks incredibly interesting to me! Are you going to see it?
