|
The Informant (website)
''The Informant'' may refer to: * ''The Informant'' (1997 film), a TV movie about Northern Ireland * ''The Informant'' (2013 film), a 2013 French film * ''The Informant'' (book), a 2000 book by Kurt Eichenwald *''The Informant!'', a 2009 film based on the book *''The Informant (TV series)'', 2022 Hungarian-language TV series See also * Informant (other) An informant is a person who provides privileged information to an agency. Informant may also refer to: *Informant (linguistics) An informant or consultant in linguistics is a native speaker or member of a community who acts as a linguistic refer ... * The Informer (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Informant, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Informant (1997 Film)
''The Informant'' is a 1997 cable TV movie produced by Showtime, starring Cary Elwes and Timothy Dalton. It was directed by Jim McBride and written by Nicholas Meyer based upon the book ''Field of Blood'' by Gerald Seymour. Plot The film tells the story of Sean Pius McAnally "Gingy" and the journey he makes on his way to becoming a supergrass. Gingy is reluctantly pulled out of retirement in a caravan in the Republic of Ireland by two IRA men who bring him back to Belfast to perform one last job due to his skill with an RPG. On their way back they are stopped by a British Army patrol led by Lt. David Ferris who introduces himself to Gingy. Gingy initially refuses the job but realises he has no choice after the Chief of the Belfast Brigade briefs him and threatens him. The job entails the killing of a judge using an RPG, during the getaway the gang smash through a roadblock and one of the soldiers from the previous patrol recognises Gingy from the previous checkpoint. Cast *Ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Informant (2013 Film)
''The Informant'' (french: Gibraltar, also known as ''Border Informant'') is a 2013 French crime thriller film written and directed by Julien Leclercq. Plot Marc Duval is a bar owner in Gibraltar. He is cornered by his creditors, so he agrees to become a paid informant for the French customs to report drug trafficking. He quickly finds himself drawn into events more and more dangerous and ends up being prosecuted as number two in a major drugs operation. Cast * Gilles Lellouche as Marc Duval * Tahar Rahim as Redjani Belimane * Riccardo Scamarcio as Mario / Claudio Pasco Lanfredi * Raphaëlle Agogué as Clara Duval * Mélanie Bernier as Cécile Duval * Philippe Nahon as Glacose * Aidan Devine as Bobby Sims * Raymond Cruz as Lance * Peter Berg as Traveler 1 * Ralph Brown as French Prime Minister * David Ortiz as GIGN 1 * Sean Avery as GIGN 2 * Michael Beach as David Patrick * Alex Wolff as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev * Rachel Brosnahan as Sarah * Christopher O'Shea as News Report ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Informant (book)
''The Informant: A True Story'' is a nonfiction white-collar crime book written by journalist Kurt Eichenwald and published in 2000 by Random House. It documents the mid-1990s lysine price-fixing conspiracy case and the involvement of Archer Daniels Midland executive Mark Whitacre, inspiring a 2009 film adaptation starring Matt Damon as Whitacre. Summary In the early 1990s, at the agri-business conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre is a corporate vice president and head of the bio-products division. In November 1992, under pressure from his wife, Whitacre confesses to an FBI agent that he, along with other ADM executives, routinely met with competitors to fix the price of lysine, a food additive. Afterwards, Whitacre assists in gathering evidence against the other conspirators by secretly taping their activities during overseas business meetings. Over the course of three years, the FBI collects hundreds of hours of video and audio tapes documenting the la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Informant!
''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. Released on September 18, 2009, ''The Informant!'' received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for Matt Damon's performance and the film's comedic yet ironic tone, although the latter has also been a point of criticism from other critics. The film was also a commercial success, grossing $41.8 million on a $22 million budget. Plot Mark Whitacre, a rising star at the Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) office in Decatur, Illinois, during the early 1990s, blows the whistle on the company’s price-fixing tactics at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Informant (TV Series)
''The Informant'' (Hungarian title: ''A besúgó'') is a television series produced for HBO Max and created by Bálint Szentgyörgyi. The series follows a pro-democracy movement emerging at a Budapest-based university in 1985. It was a huge success among local audiences, and became the most watched HBO Max content in Hungary in both April and May 2022, even surpassing ''The Batman,'' released on the platform simultaneously. The series was nevertheless critiqued by some academics, who found the depiction of the opposition to the communist government to be inaccurate. The series was removed from HBO Max in June 2022 as a result of the Warner Bros. Discovery merger. It was added to SkyShowtime Showtime is an American pay television, premium television television network, network owned by Paramount Media Networks, and is the flagship property of the namesake parent company, Showtime Networks, a part of Paramount Media Networks. Showtime ... in March 2023, as part of an acquisitio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Informant (other)
An informant is a person who provides privileged information to an agency. Informant may also refer to: *Informant (linguistics) An informant or consultant in linguistics is a native speaker or member of a community who acts as a linguistic reference for a language or speech community being studied. The informant's role is that of a senior interpreter, who demonstrates native ..., a native speaker who provides information about their language for linguistics study * Informant (psychiatry), a third party who can report on a psychiatric case for a doctor See also * Informer (other) * The Informant (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |