The Informant! (2009)
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Biography
Cast: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Melanie Lynskey, Thomas F. Wilson, Joel McHale, Jimmy Pardo, Paul F. Tompkins, Clancy Brown, Ann Cusack, Ann Dowd, Tom Papa, Rick Overton, Allan Havey, Patton Oswalt, Craig Ricci Shaynak, Scott Adsit, Eddie Jemison, Arden Myrin, Tony Hale, Andrew Daly, Frank Welker, Candy Clark, Dick Smothers, Tom Smothers, Richard Horvitz, Bob Zany, Lucas McHugh Carroll
The Informant! is a 2009 American biographical-crime comedy film directed by Steven Soderbergh. Written by Scott Z. Burns, the film stars Matt Damon as the titular informant named Mark Whitacre, as well as Scott Bakula, Joel McHale and Melanie Lynskey. It depicts Whitacre's involvement as a whistleblower in the lysine price-fixing conspiracy of the mid-1990s, based on the 2000 nonfiction book The Informant, by journalist Kurt Eichenwald.