The Informant!

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for language
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Sep 18, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $26,469,331
Starring: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Melanie Lynskey, Tony Hale, Thomas F. Wilson
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Screenwriter: Scott Z. Burns
Producer: Gregory Jacobs, Jennifer Fox, Howard Braunstein, Kurt Eichenwald
Composer: Marvin Hamlisch
Studio: Warner Bros.

Synopsis:
What was Mark Whitacre thinking? A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Whitacre (Matt Damon) suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company's... What was Mark Whitacre thinking? A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Whitacre (Matt Damon) 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 (Scott Bakula and Joel McHale) and threatens the case against ADM as it becomes almost impossible to decipher what is real and what is the product of Whitacre's active imagination.

Academy Award® winner Matt Damon ("Good Will Hunting," the "Bourne" movies) stars in "The Informant!," based on the true story of the highest-ranking corporate whistleblower in U.S. history. The film also stars Scott Bakula, Joel McHale and Melanie Lynskey.

"The Informant!" is directed by Academy Award® winner Steven Soderbergh ("Traffic") from a screenplay by Scott Z. Burns, based on the book The Informant (A True Story), written by Kurt Eichenwald. The film is produced by Gregory Jacobs, Jennifer Fox, Michael Jaffe, Howard Braunstein and Kurt Eichenwald. George Clooney, Jeff Skoll and Michael London served as executive producers, with Michael Polaire co-producing.

The behind-the-scenes creative team includes production designer Doug Meerdink, editor Stephen Mirrione and costume designer Shoshana Rubin. The music is by multiple Oscar® winner and nominee Marvin Hamlisch ("The Sting," "The Way We Were").

Warner Bros. Pictures presents, in association with Participant Media and Groundswell Productions, a Section Eight-Jaffe/Braunstein Enterprise, "The Informant!" --© Warner Bros

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Zombieland

Rated: R
Runtime: - mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Screenwriter: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick
Producer: Gavin Polone
Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment



Sinopsis:

By Steven Rea

Inquirer Movie Columnist and Critic

From its inventive opening credits to a surprise cameo and accompanying laugh-riot Ghostbusters homage, the zom-com Zombieland delivers gore and gags in equally satisfying spurts, so to speak. (There's lots of projectile body fluid.) It also boasts one of the funniest, loopiest Woody Harrelson turns in years.

A Mad magazine-like counterpoint to the forthcoming post-apocalyptic grimfest The Road, Zombieland is set in a wasteland where blood-spewing flesh-eaters roam what's left of the U.S. of A. A crazy virus has infected the population, and only a lucky few, or unlucky few, have managed to stay untainted.

One gamer-nerd college student, nicknamed Columbus because he's heading home to the Ohio town where, hopefully, his parents still live, is among the survivors. As played by Jesse Eisenberg, the droll, nervous ninny of Adventureland and The Squid and the Whale, Columbus is the first-person protagonist of first-time director Ruben Fleischer's raucous road movie.

Columbus has survived thus far thanks to a serious case of OCD: He has a list of rules (avoid public rest rooms and fasten your seat belt, not to mention the more zombie-specific "double-tap" rule) and sticks to them. The kid makes an oddball companion to Tallahassee - Harrelson's character, a zombie-bashing road warrior with a furious lust for Hostess' Twinkies - when the two team up on a carnage-strewn interstate.

Originally heading east, the unlikely duo soon meet two sisters - Little Rock (Little Miss Sunshine's Abigail Breslin) and Wichita (Superbad's Emma Stone). The girls aren't as helpless as they first appear, but after a couple of wary, scary encounters, the foursome turn their wheels around and head west together. Word has it that there's a zombie-free colony in a California amusement park.

Like Shaun of the Dead, the film parodies and pays tribute to its genre antecedents and inspirations. There are gory nods to George Romero's cannibal canon, and the aforementioned "Who you gonna call?" stoner salute to Ghostbusters. Writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (of Spike TV's Invasion Iowa and The Joe Schmo Show) go gonzo with the comedy, and Eisenberg and Harrelson share inspired moments of lunacy: the former deadpan and neurotic, the latter wild-eyed and weird. When Tallahassee finally sinks his teeth into one of his beloved junk-food snacks - his quest for Twinkies is akin to Lancelot's for the Holy Grail - the close-up of Harrelson's mad mug is truly sublime.

Source: www.rottentomatoes.com

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