The Informant!

Release: September 18, 2009

a rising star in the agricultural industry suddenly turns whistleblower in hopes of gaining a lucrative promotion and becoming a hero of the common people, inadvertently revealing his penchant for helping himself to the corporate coffers and ultimately threatening to derail the very investigation he helped to launch. Mark Whitacre was fast rising through the ranks at agri-industry powerhouse Archer Daniels Midland [ADM] when he became savvy to the company's multinational price-fixing conspiracy, and decided to turn evidence for the FBI. Convinced that he'll be hailed as a hero of the people for his efforts, Whitacre agrees to wear a wire in order to gather the evidence needed to convict the greedy money-grabbers at ADM. Unfortunately, both the case -- and Whitacre's integrity -- are compromised when FBI agents become frustrated by their informant's ever-shifting account, and discover that he isn't exactly the saintly figure he made himself out to be. Unable to discern reality from Whitacre's fantasy as they struggle to build their case against ADM, the FBI watches in horror as the highest-ranking corporate bust in U.S. history threatens to implode before their very eyes. Matt Damon leads; co-starring Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, and Melanie Lynskey. Steven Soderbergh directs from the screenplay by Scott Z. Burns; Based on the 2000 Random House book by Kurt Eichenwald. Produced by Gregory Jacobs, Jennifer Fox, Michael Jaffe, Howard Braunstein and Eichenwald • Executive Producers: George Clooney, Jeff Skoll and Michael London. Music by Marvin Hamlisch • Soundtrack album on New Line. a Section Eight-Jaffe/Braunstein enterprise for Warner Bros. Pictures, with Participant Media and Groundswell Productions. filmed mainly around Chicago, IL from April 29 - June 2008, with reshoots on November 2008. Approved [No. 44918]/rated R for its language.

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Mark: "Mark Whitacre - secret agent 0014." "Cause I'm twice as smart as 007."

Rusty Williams: "Why 0014?"

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Terry Wilson: "Well; There you have it; from Mark Whitacre, Ph.D. You know what the 'Ph.D.' stands for - Don't you? 'Piled higher and deeper'."

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Mark Whitacre: "Archer Daniels Midland - Most people have never head of us, but chances are, they've never had a meal we're not a part of. Just read the side of the package; that's us. Now ADM is taking dextrose from the corn and turning it into an amino acid called 'lysine'. It's all very scientific, but if you're a stockholder, all that matters is corn goes in one end and profit comes out the other."

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Mark Whitacre: "One of the Japanese guys told me a story: This lysine salesman is in a meeting with someone from ConAgra or some other company, I don't know. ⋯and the client leans forward and says 'I have the same tie as you, only the pattern is reversed'. ⋯and then he drops dead; face down on the table, alive; and then dead. Brain aneurism. Maybe everyone has a sentence like that, a little time bomb. 'I have the same tie as you, only the pattern's reversed'. Dead; The last thing they'll ever say."

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Mark Whitacre: "What's the German word for 'corn'? The word in German I really like is 'kugelschreiber'. That's 'pen'; all those syllables just for 'pen'."

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Mark Whitacre: "[v/o] You know that orange juice you have every morning? You know what's in that? Corn. ⋯and you know what's in the maple syrup you put on your pancakes? You know what makes it taste so good? Corn. ⋯and when you're good and help with the trash, you know what makes the big, green bags biodegradable?" "[to his son] Do you?" "Corn starch. ⋯but daddy's company didn't come up with that one; DuPont did."

Alexander Whitacre: "Uh-huh; Corn."

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Mark Whitacre: "I've been to Tokyo. They sell little-girl underwear in the vending machines right on the main drag - the Ginza, or whatever. Guys in suits buying used girl panties. How is that okay? That's not okay."

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Mark Whitacre: "There are these butterflies in Central America: They're blue and orange and yellow and have poison in their wings, just enough to stop a bird heart. ⋯but the birds know this somehow, so they don't eat them.⋯but there are other ones: Butterflies - they're orange, blue and yellow too, but no poison wings. They're just flying around; looking dangerous; getting by on their looks."

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Mark Whitacre: "When polar bears hunt: they crouch down by a hole in the ice and wait for a seal to pop up; They keep one paw over their nose so that they blend in, because they've got those black noses; They'd blend in perfectly, if not for the nose. So the question is: How do they know their noses are black? From looking at other polar bears? Do they see their reflections in the water and think: 'I'd be invisible if not for that'? That seems like a lot of thinking for a bear."

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Disclaimer: "While this motion picture is based on real events, certain incidents and characters are composites, and dialog has been dramatized. So there."

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