Should The Girlfriend Experience (which was one of my favourite titles I caught at the Sydney Film Festival — final SFF writeups in the week ahead, I promise...) secure a local theatrical run this year, the ever-prolific and always interesting Steven Soderbergh will have had no less than four films on Australian release in 2009: The Girlfriend Experience, Che: Part One, Che: Part Two, and The Informant!, the Matt Damon-toplined black comic thriller detailing one of the most high-stakes cases of corporate whistleblowing in US history. The latter’s first trailer has dropped at Apple Trailers, and what immediately strikes is the extent to which this is pitching for laughs. What could in other hands have, well, informed ‘A SERIOUS MOVIE’ (note to Michael Mann: I’m a fan of the tack with which you covered similar ground in The Insider, however) instead promises to bring the funny but good.
Have a look here.
The Informant! releases, exclamation point and all, on October 22nd.
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Not only does this look really entertaining, but: Clancy. Motherf#@king. Brown.
Have you checked the full cast list? Mighty fine lineup. And, like you said, looks entertaining as all get-out.
But bonus Clancy is quite the epic win...
Good to see Joel McHale.
and yes, Kurgan = WIN.
Mr Krabby/Lex Luthor is in this movie!? Must re-watch trailer again.
This genre of movie really does need a bit of comedy to spruce it up. Genius, and don't know why nobody thought of it before. Nice to see Damon doing something funny again since like...jay and silent bob strike back??
who is the guy that sorta looks like he belongs in Mission Impossible and steve carrell?
Mr Brown may be sighted in the pic atop this post to clue you in as to where to pay attention.
Also, do you mean Tony Hale from Arrested Development? Darn he's great...
Joel McHale is the host of The Soup, funny guy.
Oh dear. Just found out that Tom Wilson is in this! BIFF!!!
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