The Informant is a 2009 film about Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon), who is helping the FBI catch senior level people at his company for price fixing. It’s an off beat comedy that has some really funny moments, if you pay close attention and watch the film. The story starts with an unexplained virus that keeps infecting their product at the corn company where he works. Whitacre ends up making up a story about a Japanese competitor that says they have a mole that is sabotaging their product and will only tell them who it is for 10 million dollars. The company decides to bring in the FBI to catch the mole, but since they are running a price fixing operation, Whitacre gets nervous and tells them the truth - or so you think.

Turns out the price fixing is real, only everything else Whitacre says isn’t, he’s a liar, thief, embezzler, and jeopardizes the DOJ’s entire case with his antics.

Overall, it’s a good movie and funny.

Budget: $21 million
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring:
Matt Damon
Melanie Lynskey
Scott Bakula
Joel McHale
Ann Cusack