The Informant

Trailer from the movie The Informant. The film is a dark comedy directed by Steven Soderbergh. Based on journalist Kurt Eichenwald’s non-fiction book of the same name, published in 2000, it details whistle-blower Mark Whitacre and his involvement in the Lysine price-fixing conspiracy in the mid-1990's. The script was written by Scott Z. Burns and the film stars Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale and Melanie Lynskey.