Bibliograph

The informant!, Warner Bros. Pictures presents in association with Participant Media and Groundswell Productions, a Section Eight-Jaffe/Braunstein enterprise ; produced by Gregory Jacobs, Jennifer Fox, Michael Jaffe, Howard Braunstein, Kurt Eichenwald ; co-producer, Michael Polaire ; screenplay by Scott Z. Burns ; directed by Steven Soderbergh ; executive producers, George Clooney, Jeff Skoll, Michael London

Type

Label

The informant!, Warner Bros. Pictures presents in association with Participant Media and Groundswell Productions, a Section Eight-Jaffe/Braunstein enterprise ; produced by Gregory Jacobs, Jennifer Fox, Michael Jaffe, Howard Braunstein, Kurt Eichenwald ; co-producer, Michael Polaire ; screenplay by Scott Z. Burns ; directed by Steven Soderbergh ; executive producers, George Clooney, Jeff Skoll, Michael London

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R; for language

Main title

The informant!

Oclc number

492437912

Responsibility statement

Warner Bros. Pictures presents in association with Participant Media and Groundswell Productions, a Section Eight-Jaffe/Braunstein enterprise ; produced by Gregory Jacobs, Jennifer Fox, Michael Jaffe, Howard Braunstein, Kurt Eichenwald ; co-producer, Michael Polaire ; screenplay by Scott Z. Burns ; directed by Steven Soderbergh ; executive producers, George Clooney, Jeff Skoll, Michael London

Runtime

108

Summary

The U.S. government decides to go after an agri-business giant with a price-fixing accusation based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president turned informant Mark Whitacre. 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

Technique

live action