The Informant! (2009)

Comedy, Crime, Drama

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writers: Scott Z. Burns, Kurt Eichenwald
Starring: Matt Damon, Lucas McHugh Carroll, Eddie Jemison, Rusty Schwimmer

Matt Damon, in one of his best roles, plays Mark Whitacre, a real-life corporate executive who became a whistleblower for the FBI, exposing his company's multinational price-fixing conspiracy, and getting himself convicted for embezzlement in the process.

At the helm of director Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Traffic, Ocean's Eleven), The Informant! tells Whitacre's story as an offbeat comic one, downright farcical at times, rather than treating it as a typical suspenseful corporate espionage film, and Matt Damon does an amazing job of making his mustachioed and toupeed character seem real and relatable, while simultaneously showing the comically absurd sometimes-artistically-licensed antics and behavior of the white-collar criminal.

If you haven't seen Matt Damon in this one, you should definitely watch it. And if you have, you might as well watch it again.

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

Awards: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 1 win & 16 nominations.
Runtime: 108 min
R