THE INFORMANT

Nancy’s Movie Ratings:
•    Absolutely must see in the theater
•    Must see on Demand
•    Will see on an airplane if too tired to work
•    Might see on Demand if nothing else and really too tired to read
•    Might see if hospitalized for long recovery and have seen everything else
•    Will definitely see if in prison and the only film playing

Directed by Steven Soderbergh starting Matt Damon who put on a stupid mustache and 30 pounds and is unrecognizable as the real life Mark Whitacre Midwestern biochemist turned president of the BioProducts Division of Archer Daniels Midland turned spy/whistleblower for the FBI. He’s geeky, he’s self absorbed, innocent, hard to read, believable, sympathetic, pathetic. The movie hinges on some twists that I won’t even hint at. I ended up missing it in the theaters so I caught it on demand.

Matt Damon proved his acting talent to me so much more in this film than his thrillers. The subtlety of his character was not easy to pull off. I loved every minute of this film, but still would give it a less than theater rating. (The reason is that I have so little time that I really want to see masterpieces in the theater and see movies like this while I’m eating dinner and relaxing at home.)

Nancy’s Movie Rating: Must see on Demand