EL ANGEL EXTERMINADOR

Mexico, 1962

Director: Luis Bunuel

Writer: Luis Bunuel

Producer: Gustavo Alatriste

Cast: Silvia Pinal, Enrique Rambal

Plot Summary:

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room... and over the next few days all the elaborate pretenses and facades that they've built up by virtue of their position in society collapse completely as they become reduced to living like animals...

AFTERSCHOOL

USA, 2008

Director: Antonio Campos

Producer: Josh Mond, T. Sean Durkin

Writer: Antonio Campos

Cast: Ezra Miller, Danielle Baum

Synopsis:

Robert is a young American student at an elite East Coast preparatory school who accidentally captures on camera the tragic death of two classmates. Their lives become memorialized as part of an audio-visual assignment designed to speed up the campus-wide healing process. But the video memorial assignment results in an atmosphere of paranoia and unease among students and teachers.

SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER

(Tirez Sur Le Pianiste)

1960, France

Director: Francois Truffaut

Writer: Francois Truffaut, Marcel Moussy, David Goodys (novel)

Producer: Pierre Braunberger

Cast: Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Albert Remy

Plot Summary:

Charlie Kohler is a piano player in a bar. The waitress Lena is in love with him. One of Charlie's brother, Chico, a crook, takes refuge in the bar because he is chased by two gangsters, Momo and Ernest. We will discover that Charlie's real name is Edouard Saroyan, once a virtuose who gives up after his wife's suicide. Charlie now has to deal wih Chico, Ernest, Momo, Fido (his youngest brother who lives with him), and Lena...

THE UNDERSTUDY

USA, 2008

Directors: David Conolly, Hanna Davis

Writers: David Conolly, Hanna Davis

Producers: David Conolly, Hanna Davis

Cast: Marin Ireland, Paul Sparks, Aasif Mandvi, Richard Kind

Plot Summary:

A perennial understudy takes matters into her own hands to achieve fame at any price.

LOFT

2008, Belgium

Genre: Crime

Director: Erik Van Looy

Producer: Hilde de Laere

Writer: Bart de Pauw

Budget: 3,2 M Euros

Cast: Koen de Bouw, Filip Peters, Matthias Schoenaerts, Bruno Vanden Broucke, Koen De Graeve, Veerle Baetens

Plot Summary:

5 friends who are all married and know each other very well decide to rent a loft together. In this loft they meet their mistresses. Everything is OK until one morning the body of an unknown young woman is found in the loft. The 5 friends begin to suspect each other of murder. And it becomes clear that they don't know each other as good as they always thought.

THE BELGRADE PHANTOM

2009, Serbia, Hungary, Bulgaria

Genre: Documentary

Director: Jovan B. Todorovic

Producers: Jovan B. Todorovic, Bodgan Petkovic

Writer: Jovan B. Todorovic, Bodgan Petkovic

Budget: 750.000 Euros

Cast: Milutin Milosevic, Marko Zivic, Radoslav Milenkovic

Plot Summary:

Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1979. While Yugoslav president Tito is in Cuba settling international matters, a mysterious Phantom occupies the attention and hearts of Belgrade. Every night, he exhibits spectacular driving maneuvers using a stolen white Porsche car through the city streets. Through the radio the Phantom publicly challenges the police to try and catch him. More than 10.000 people are in the streets supporting their hero. The police are forced into a game where he sets the rules. The Phantom becomes a political threat. What started as a game turned into a political scandal and remained a myth that would never be forgot.

MOON INSIDE YOU

2009, Spain, France Slovakia

Genre: Documentary

Director: Diana Favianova

Writers: Diana Favianova

Cast: Diana Favianova

Plot Summary:

Like many other women, Diana has been suffering from problematic periods for years. With every new cycle, the same question arise: "Why the pain and annoyance if I am healthy?

ENTRE NOS

USA, 2009

Genre: Drama

Director: Paola Mendoza, Gloria La Morte

Producers: Joseph La Morte, Michael Skolnik

Writers: Paola Mendoza, Gloria La Morte

Budget: $500K

Cast: Paola Mendoza, Sebastian Villada, Laura Montana

Plot Summary:

A story based on facts which offers a fresh take on the issue of new immigrants in the United States. Mariana totes her two children from Colombia to reunite with her husband in Queens, New York. Her life is devastatingly turned around when her husband abandons the family. The woman and her kids have to fend for themselves in a foreign country. Mariana desperately searches for work. In the end, she resourcefully navigates a surprising avenue for making some money, the city's recycling.

E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL

USA, 1982

Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Steven Spielberg

Producers: Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy

Writer: Melissa Mathison

Budget: $10.5M

Cast: Henry Thomas, Dee Walace, Robert MacNaugton, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote

Plot Summary:

A group of aliens visit earth and one of them is lost and left behind stranded on this planet. The alien is found by a 10 year old boy, Elliot. Soon the two begin to communicate, and start a different kind of friendship in which E.T learns about life on earth and Elliot learns about some new values for the true meaning of friendship. E.T. wants to go home, but if Elliot helps him, he'll lose a friend...

GERMANIA, ANNO ZERO

Italy, 1948

Genre: Drama

Director: Roberto Rosselini

Producer: Salvo D'Angelo, Roberto Rosselini

Writer: Roberto Rosselini, Max Colpet, Sergio Amidei

Cast: Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger, Erich Gühne

Plot Summary:

Edmund, a young boy who lives in the destructed Germany after the 2nd World War has to do all kinds of work and tricks to help his family in getting food and barely survive. One day he meets a man who used to be one of his teacher in school and hopes to get support from him, but the ideas of this man does not lead Edmund in a clearer or safer way of living...

SIMON DEL DESIERTO

Mexico, 1965

Genre: Short, Drama

Director: Luis Bunuel

Producer: Gustavo Alatriste

Writers: Julio Alejandro, Luis Bunuel

Cast: Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Hortensia Santovena*, Luis Aceves Castaneda*

Plot Summary:

The ascetic religious Simón believes he is a sinner and decides to self-inflict a sacrifice, living like a hermit on the top of a pedestal in the middle of the desert to be closer to God and resist the temptations of the world. His followers are peasants and travelers that believe that Simón is a saint capable of performing miracles and they crowd to hear his speeches. However, Satan tries to tempt him with the pleasures of the world.

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

USA, 2009

Genre: Adventure

Director: Spike Jonze

Producer: Tom Hanks, John B. Carls, Gary Goeztman, Maurice Sendak, Vincent Landay

Writer: Spike Jonze, David Egger (screenplay), Maurice Sendak (book)

Cast: Max Records, Catherine Keener

Voices: Lauren Ambrose, Chris Cooper, James Gandolfini, Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker

Budget: $80M

Plot Summary:

An adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world--a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler.

INTERVIEW

USA, 2007

Genre: Drama

Director: Steve Buscemi

Producer: Scott Hornbacher, Bruce Weiss, Gijs van de Westelaken

Writer: Steve Buscemi, David Schechter, Theodor Holman

Cast: Sienna Miller, Steve Buscemi

Plot Summary:

Everyone wants a piece of a celebrity. Pierre is a political reporter, assigned to write a fluff piece on Katya, a blond who acts in slasher movies and a Fox show about single girls in the city. The interview, at a restaurant, goes badly: she's late, he's unprepared and rude. After leaving, he bangs his head in a fender bender and she takes him to her loft to clean the wound. Lubricated by alcohol and competitive natures, the interview resumes. She takes phone calls from her fiancé, Pierre reads her diary on her computer. They discuss wounds, he expresses concern, father-daughter feelings arise. Out come camcorders to tape their darkest secrets. Is friendship or more in the offing?

GLORIA

USA, 1980

Genre: Crime

Director: John Cassavetes

Producer: Sam Shaw

Writer: John Cassavetes

Cast: Julie Carmen, Gena Rowlands

Plot Summary:

Jack Dawn and his family are eliminated by the mob, because he was their accountant and was keeping a personal copy of their records. However his six-year-old Puerto Rican son, Phil, escapes with Gloria, a neighbor who was a former girlfriend of one of the gangsters. Gloria and Phil are chased throughout New York City because Phil has a black book containing the accounts of the mob.

WAGON MASTER

USA, 1950
Genre: Western

Director: John Ford
Writer: John Ford, Patrick Ford, Frank Nugent
Producers: John Ford, Merian C. Cooper
Cast: Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., Joanne Dru, Ward Bond

Plot Summary:
The plot takes us to 1849 Utah Territory, where two young horse traders are hired by a Mormon elder to guide a small party of Mormon families westward through the Utah desert. The wagon train is plagued by a series of events. Serious meaning a band of savage Indians, A dry desert and no water, and a band of crazy outlaws, who use the train as a disguise. A must see adventure!!

FARGO

USA, 1996
Genre: Crime

Director: Joel Cohen
Producers: Ethan & Joel Cohen
Writers: Joel & Ethan Cohen
Cast: William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, Harve Presnell
Budget: $7M

Plot Summary:
Jerry works in his father-in-law's car dealership and has gotten himself in financial problems. He tries various schemes to come up with money needed for a reason that is never really explained. It has to be assumed that his huge embezzlement of money from the dealership is about to be discovered by father-in-law. When all else falls through, plans he set in motion earlier for two men to kidnap his wife for ransom to be paid by her wealthy father (who doesn't seem to have the time of day for son-in-law). From the moment of the kidnapping, things go wrong and what was supposed to be a non-violent affair turns bloody with more blood added by the minute. Jerry is upset at the bloodshed, which turns loose a pregnant sheriff from Brainerd, MN who is tenacious in attempting to solve the three murders in her jurisdiction.

DETOUR

USA, 1945
Genre: Crime

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Producers: Leon Fromkess
Writer: Martin Goldsmith
Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage
Budget: $30K

Plot Summary:
After his girlfriend Sue has left for the West Coast, Al Roberts decides to join her and starts a journey hitchhiking westwards. When he finds a driver who'd given him a lift dead, he decides to get rid of the body and take the man's identity, fearing he'd be accused of murder if he would go to the police. However, Vera, a hitchhiking girl Al picks up, sees through him and starts blackmailing him into going along with her schemes which get him deeper and deeper into trouble.

BORAT: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

USA, 2006
Genre: Comedy

Director: Larry Charles
Producers: Sacha Baron Cohen, Jay Roach
Writer: Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Anthony Hines, Dan Mazer, Todd Phillips
Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian
Budget: $18M

Plot Summary:
Borat Sagdiyev is a TV reporter of a popular show in Kazakhstan as Kazakhstan's sixth most famous man and a leading journalist. He is sent from his home to America by his government to make a documentary about American society and culture. Borat takes a course in New York City to understand American humor. While watching Baywatch on TV, Borat discovers how beautiful their women are in the form of C. J. Parker, who was played by actress Pamela Anderson who hails from Malibu, California. He decides to go on a cross-country road trip to California in a quest to make her his wife and take her back to his country. On his journey Borat and his producer encounter a country full of strange and wonderful Americans, real people in real chaotic situations with hysterical consequences.

FROZEN RIVER

USA 2008
Genre: Drama
Director: Courtney Hunt
Writer: Courtney Hunt
Producers: Chip Hourihan, Heather Rae
Cast: Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott, Michael O'Keefe
Budget: $1M

Plot Summary:
After her husband takes off in their family vehicle for an unknown destination, Ray Eddy attempts to survive alone, raising two sons, Richard and James, and works part-time at Yankee Dollar, near Saint Lawrence River near Quebec and New York State. One day she witnesses a Mohawk woman driving their family vehicle, she follows and confronts her, finds out that the woman's name is Lila Littlewolf, and is actively engaged in smuggling illegal immigrants into the United States via a treacherous frozen river. The lure of money attracts Eddy and she decides to join forces with her new associate.

CREATIVE NON FICTION

USA, 2009
Genre: Comedy

Director: Lena Dunham
Writer: Lena Dunham
Producer:
Cast: Richard Brundage, Jeffery Cristiani, Grace Dunham, Lena Dunham
Budget: $18K

Plot Summary:

Plot SummaryCollege student Ella is completely focused on her ambiguously romantic relationship with her dorm-mate, Chris. She is so consumed by trying to understand his behavior that she's neglecting the screenplay she is supposed to write in order to graduate. When she does sit down to work on the script, her increasingly awkward social life bleeds onto the page and her work begins to express her true feelings about her own situation.

BRIGHT STAR

USA, 2009
Genre: Drama

Director: Jane Campion
Writer: Jane Campion
Producers: Jan Chapman, Caroline Hewitt
Cast: Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider
Budget: $8.5M

Plot Summary:
A Romance based on the last three years of life of the poet John Keats and his love affair with the girl next door, Fanny Brawne.

Days Of Being Wild

Hong Kong, 1990

Genre: Drama

Director: Wong Kar-Wai

Producer: Robert Tang

Writer: Wong Kar-Wai

Cast: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Carina Lau

Plot Summary:

Set in 1960, the film centres on the young, boyishly handsome Yuddy, who learns from the drunken ex-prostitute who raised him that she is not his real mother. Hoping to hold onto him, she refuses to divulge the name of his real birth mother. The revelation shakes Yuddy to his very core, unleashing a cascade of conflicting emotions. Two women have the bad luck to fall for Yuddy. One is a quiet lass named Su Lizhen who works at a sports arena, while the other is a glitzy showgirl named Mimi. Perhaps due to his unresolved Oedipal issues, he passively lets the two compete for him, unable or unwilling to make a choice. As Lizhen slowly confides her frustration to a cop named Tide, he falls for her. The same is true for Yuddy's friend Zeb, who falls for Mimi. Later, Yuddy learns of his birth mother's whereabouts and heads out to the Philippines.

Un Chien Andalou

France, 1929
Genre: Short, Fantasy
Director: Luis Buñuel
Producers: Luis Buñuel
Writers: Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí
Cast: Luis Buñuel, Simonne Mareuil, Young girl Pierre Batchef, Salvador Dalí

Plot Summary:
Un Chien Andalou consists of seventeen minutes of bizarre and surreal images that may or may not mean anything. A straight razor seems to be placed by a woman's eye, a small cloud formation obscures the moon, a cow's eye is slit open, a woman pokes at a severed hand in the street with his cane, a man drags two grand pianos containing dead and rotting donkeys and live priests, and a man's hand has a hole in the palm from which ants emerge.

All My Good Countrymen

Czechoslovakia, 1969
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director:Vojtech Jasný
Producers: Vojtech Jasný
Writers: Jaroslav Jílovec
Awards: Cannes 1969 (Best Director)
Cast: Vlastimil Brodský, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Vladimír Mensík, Waldemar Matuska, Drahomira Hofmanová

Plot Summary:
Stories about seven friends in a small Moravian village following the socialization of Czechoslovakia in 1948, developing gradually into the story of Frantiek, the resister. The film offers some direct political criticism, particularly of the process of collectivizing agriculture. After the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, it was promptly banned.

Shaun Of The Dead

UK, 2004
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edgar Wright
Producers: Nira Park, Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan
Writers: Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg
Budget: $4M
Cast: Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Nick Frost

Plot Summary:
Shaun is having many problems in life. His long-time girlfriend has dumped him due to their almost-daily expedition to Shaun's favorite pub, the Winchester. His temporary management job isn't going well at Foree Electronics, with his subordinates not even giving him the time of day. His deadbeat flatmates, Pete and Ed, are at each others' throats. And, oh yeah, London is overrun with multitudes of zombies. In the midst of this, he must save himself, Ed, his ex, his mom, and his precious record collection. There is a time when a hero must rise...from his couch.

The General

USA, 1926

Genre: Comedy

Directors: Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman

Writers: Buster Keaton & Cyde Bruckman

Producer: Buster Keaton

Cast: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender.

Plot Summary:

Johnnie loves his train (The General) and Annabelle Lee. When the Civil War begins he is turned down for service because he's more valuable as an engineer. Annabelle thinks it's because he's a coward. Union spies capture The General with Annabelle on board. Johnny must rescue both his loves.

Pi

USA, 1998
Genre: Thriller
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Producers: Eric Watson, Scott Franklin
Writers: Darren Aronofsky, Sean Gullette
Cast: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Pamela Hart
Budget: $60K
Awards: Sundance (Directing), Independent Spirit Awards (screenplay)

Plot Summary:
The mathematician Maximillian Cohen is tormented by a severe migraine since he was a kid, and he uses many pills to reduce his painful headaches. He is a lonely man, and his only friend is his former professor Sol Robeson. Max has the following assumptions, which rules his life: (1) Mathematics is the language of nature; (2) Everything around us can be represented and understood from numbers; (3) If you graph the numbers in any systems, patterns emerge. Therefore there are patterns everywhere in nature. Based on these principles, Max is trying to figure out a system to predict the behavior of the stock market. Due to his research, Max is chased by a Wall Street company with obvious interest in the results of his studies, and by an orthodox Jew follower of the Torah, who believes that this long string of numbers is a code sent from God.

The Hurt Locker

USA 2008
Genre: War
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Writer: Mark Goal
Producers: Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Greg Saphiro, Nicholas Chartier
Cast: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty
Budget: $11M

Plot Summary:
Bagdad, 2004. War is a drug. An intense portrayal of elite soldiers who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: disarming bombs in the heat of combat. When a new sergeant, James, takes over a highly trained bomb disposal team amidst violent conflict, he surprises his two subordinates, Sanborn and Eldridge, by recklessly plunging them into a deadly game of urban combat. James behaves as if he's indifferent to death. As the men struggle to control their wild new leader, the city explodes into chaos, and James' true character reveals itself in a way that will change each man forever.

Hounddog

USA 2007
Genre: Drama
Director: Deborah Kampmeier
Producers: Deborah Kampmeir, Scott Franklin, Raye Dowell
Writers: Deborah Kampmeier
Cast: Dakota Fanning, Isabelle Furhman, Cody Hanford, David Morse, Piper Laurie
Budget: $3.75M
Awards: Sundance 2007 (nominated), Toronto Female Eye Film Festival 2009 (won)

Plot Summary:
A drama set in the American South (1950 aprox.), where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.

Requiem for a dream

USA 2000
Genre: Drama
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Producers: Eric Watson, Palmer West, Scott Franklin
Writters: Darren Aronofsky (screenplay), Hubert Selby Jr. (book & screenplay)
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlone Wayans.
Budget: $4.5M

Plot Summary:

Requiem for a Dream exposes four paralleled individuals and their menacing addiction to heroin, cocaine, and diet pills (speed). Taking place in Brooklyn amidst the waning Coney Island, the drugs are very easily obtained and keep each main character in its cycle of dependence. The protagonist Harry Goldfarb is your typical heroin junky with an ambitious plan of "Getting off hard knocks," with help from his cocaine crazed girlfriend Marion and his long time friend Tyrone. Meanwhile his widowed mother is obsessed with the glamor of television and eventually finds her way to a dietitian who pushes her into the cycle of drug induced enslavement.

The Last Picture Show

USA 1971

Genre: Drama
Directed by: Peter Bogdanovich
Producers: Stephen J. Friedman
Writer: Peter Bogdanovich (screenplay), Larry McMurtry (novel & screenplay)
Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Ben Johnson), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Cloris Leachman)
Budget: $1..,3M
Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman

Plot Summary:
In tiny Anarene, Texas, in the lull between World War Two and the Korean Conflict, Sonny and Duane are best friends. Enduring that awkward period of life between boyhood and manhood, the two pass their time the best way they know how -- with the movie house, basketball, and girls. Jacey is Duane's steady, wanted by every boy in school, and she knows it. Her daddy is rich and her mom is good looking and loose. It's the general consensus that whoever wins Jacey's heart will be set for life. But Anarene is dying a quiet death as folks head for the big cities to make their livings and raise their kids. The boys are torn between a future somewhere out there beyond the borders of town or making do with their inheritance of a run-down pool hall and a decrepit movie house -- the legacy of their friend and mentor, Sam the Lion. As high school graduation approaches, they learn some difficult lessons about love, loneliness, and jealousy. Then folks stop attending the second-run features at the movie house and the time comes for the last picture show. With the closure of the movie house, the boys feel that a stage of their lives is closing. They stand uneasily on the threshold of the rest of their lives

Othello

USA 1952

Genre: Drama

Directed by: Orson Welles

Producer: Orson Welles

Writters: Orson Welles (screenplay), W. Shakespeare (play)

Awards: Cannes Film Festival 1952

Cast: Orson Welles, Michèal MacLiammóir, Robert Coote, Suzanne Cloutier

Plot Sumary:

Desdemona, daughter of a Venetian aristocrat, elopes with Moorish military hero Othello, to the great resentment of Othello's envious underling Iago. Alas, Iago knows Othello's weakness, and with chilling malice works on him with but too good effect...

Peter & Vandy

USA 2009

Genre: Drama

Directed by: Jay DiPietro

Producers: Jay DiPietro,

Writters: Jay DiPietro, Bingo Gubelmann, Benji Kohn, Austin Stark, Peter Sterling.

Budget: $1M

Cast: Jason Ritter, Jess Weixler

Plot Summary:

'Peter and Vandy' is a love story told out of order. Set in Manhattan, the story shifts back and forth in time, juxtaposing Peter and Vandy's romantic beginnings with the twisted, manipulative, regular couple they become. The film explores the question most couples ask themselves... 'How the hell did we get this way?

Inglorious Basterds

USA 2009
Genre: War
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Producer: Lawrence Bender
Writter: Quentin Tarantino
Budget: $70M
Cast: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Mèlanie Laurent, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühll, Mike Myers

Plot Summary:
During World War II a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

Barry Lyndon

1975
Genre: Drama
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Producer: Stanley Kubrick
Writters: Stanley Kubrick (screenplay), William Makepeace Thackeray (novel).
Budget: $11M
Academy Awards: Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Music (Adapted)
Cast: Ryan O'neil, Marisa Berenson
Plot Sumary:
Redmond Barry is a young, roguish Irishman who's determined, in any way, to make a life for himself as a wealthy nobleman. Enlisting in the British Army, fighting in the Seven Years War in Europe, Barry deserts from the British army, joins the Prussian army, gets promoted to the rank of a spy, then becomes pupil to a Chevalier and con artist/gambler. Barry then lies, dupes, duels and seduces his way up the social ladder and enters into a lustful but loveless marriage to a wealthy countess named Lady Lyndon, takes the name of Barry Lyndon, settles in England with wealth and power beyond his wildest dreams, then slowly falls dramatically into ruin.

The Informant

2009

Genre: Comedy

Directed by: Steven Soderbergh

Producers: Howard Braunstein, Kurt Eichenwald, Jennifer Fox, Gregory Jacobs, Michael Jaffe.

Writters: Scott Z. Burns (screenplay), Kurt Eichenwald (book).

Cast: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Lucas Carrol, Joel McHale, Melanie Lynskey

Budget: $21M

Plot Sumary:

Mark Whitacre has worked for lysine developing company ADM for many years and has even found his way into upper management. But nothing has prepared him for the job he is about to undertake - being a spy for the FBI. Unwillingly pressured into working as an informant against the illegal price-fixing activities of his company, Whitacre gradually adopts the idea that he's a true secret agent. But as his incessant lies keep piling up, his world begins crashing down around him