Informers

Theatrical Release Date: 2008 (USA) / 2009 (USA) / 2009 (USA) / 2009 04 24 (USA - Limited) / 2009 04 10 (USA - Limited) / 2009 04 24 (USA)

UPC: 043396321236

Studio: Sony Pictures

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drug Content]

Summary: A collection of Bret Easton Ellis' short stories are adapted for the screen by Ellis and Nicholas Jarecki and helmed by Gregor Jordan in The Informers, a Senator Entertainment ensemble film featuring Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, and Winona Ryder. The film observes the goings-on during a week in Los Angeles in 1983, with many intersecting characters including a kidnapper, movie executives, rock stars, and other freewheeling, morally loose individuals. Austin Nichols, Jon Foster, and Amber Heard co-star. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi

Category: Drama

Awards: Film Presented – Sundance Film Festival

Features: Director and Cast Commentary
Human Intersections: Making The Informers

Informers

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 08/25/2009

Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 2.40:1

Audio: DTHD null

Runtime: 98 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: English

Perry Seibert

Author Bret Easton Ellis built his career on fictional expos?s about the shockingly selfish behavior of the Reagan era's cocaine-snorting, Ray-Ban-wearing, L.A. jet set -- and The Informers, adapted from a collection of his short stories, is no exception. Director Gregor Jordan, working from a script by Ellis and Nicholas Jarecki, populates the film with a number of soulless Angelinos including powerful film producer William Sloan (Billy Bob Thornton), who treats his wife, Laura (Kim Basinger), and his mistress (Winona Ryder) with equal contempt; William's privileged, bratty, twentysomething son, Graham (Jon Foster), and his circle of oversexed, over-drugged friends; a criminal (Mickey Rourke) willing to kill a child if it will get him the cash he needs; and a rock star (Mel Raido) who's grown so bored with fame and celebrity that he'd rather punch a naked groupie in the face than have sex with her. Their lives begin to intersect after a young man dies in a freak accident at a party, throwing Graham into an existential funk -- now that he's glimpsed death, he finally begins to recognize the emotional emptiness at the heart of his coke- and orgy-fueled life. Jordan continuously hammers home Graham's newfound fear of mortality by loading the movie with constant reminders that the characters live in the early '80s at the dawn of the AIDS epidemic. The incessant allusions to death weigh the movie down, killing any glimmer of satire or fun. It's as if the director decided that he wanted first and foremost to communicate his contempt for the characters -- specifically by making sure their hedonism never seems pleasurable for even a second -- rather than making them three-dimensional. Because he takes this approach, there's no one we can care about, and if the director obviously loathes these people, why shouldn't we? So, in essence, The Informers fails precisely because we never believe these lost souls were ever human enough to have had a soul to lose in the first place. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

Cast and Crew: Christopher Young  Composer (Music Score) 
Marco Weber  Producer 
Gregor Jordan  Director 
Bret Easton Ellis  Executive Producer 
Bret Easton Ellis  Screenwriter 
Brian Young  Executive Producer 
Nicholas Jarecki  Executive Producer 
Nicholas Jarecki  Screenwriter 
Vanessa Coifman  Executive Producer 
Jere Hausfater  Executive Producer 
Helga Sasse  Executive Producer 
Billy Bob Thornton  Actor 
Kim Basinger  Actor 
Winona Ryder  Actor 
Jon Foster  Actor 
Amber Heard  Actor 
Mickey Rourke  Actor 
Austin Nichols  Actor 
Lou Taylor Pucci  Actor 
Fernando Consagra  Actor 
Aaron Himelstein  Actor 
Mel Raido  Actor 
Rhys Ifans  Actor 
German Tripel  Actor 
Brad Renfro  Actor 
Suzanne Ford  Actor 
Cameron Goodman  Actor 
Angela Sarafyan  Actor 
Chris Isaak  Actor 
Diego Leske  Actor 
Katy Mixon  Actor 
Stefanie Neukirch  Actor 
Peter Scanavino  Actor 
Theo Rossi  Actor 
Daniel Rosenberg  Actor 
Jessica Stroup  Actor 
Brady Matthews  Actor 
Jeannette O'Connor  Actor 
Simone Kessell  Actor 
Milena Arango  Actor 
Diego Klattenhoff  Actor 

Country: USA