The Informant! (2009)

108 min. Director: Steven Soderbergh. Cast: Joel McHale, Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Melanie Lynskey, Thomas F. Wilson.

antitrust enforcement

price-fixing

poker-faced Bakula Joel McHale

Rick Overton, Tom Papa, Tom Wilson, Tony Hale, Allan Havey, Scott Adsit, Andrew Daly, the Smothers Brothers, Patton Oswalt, Paul F. Tompkins

music by Marvin Hamlisch

Kurt Eichenwald's The Informant (A True Story)

"So there."

blown-out or overheated visuals with unhealthy skin tones and sickly fashion sense, as if the whole movie were drenched in corn syrup

tangential internal monologue

price-fixing

putty nose

1992-2006

Crichton novel The Firm