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Release Date: 8/25/2009
 Original Release: 2009
 Format: DVD
Length: 98 minutes
 Rating: R (MPAA)
 Rating Reason: for strong sexual content, nudity, drug use, pervasive language and some disturbing images
 UPC: 043396305861
 Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Other Formats:  Informers Blu-ray Disc
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Directed by: Gregor Jordan
Featuring: Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, Winona Ryder, Jon Foster, Brad Renfro, Amber Heard, Lou Taylor Pucci, Mel Raido

Categories: Dramas, Thriller, Los Angeles, California, Hollywood, AIDS (Disease), 1980s, Based On A Novel
Description
The first film based on a book by postmodern transgressor Bret Easton Ellis to also count the author's name among its screenwriting credits, THE INFORMERS is lit with a cold, cologne-commercial sheen not unlike the one that charged AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000) with a sensation of sharp disconnect. But rather than an absurdist satire (an approach that director Gregor Jordan rejected by excising the original script's vampire subplot and oddly lighthearted tone), this sprawlingly dreamlike drama is an interlinking-narrative mosaic about (mostly) young and rich lost-soul Californians who, tragically, barely register as they struggle below a thick layer of decadent superficiality in the mid-1980s. That it's closer in mood and subject matter to the early Ellis adaptation LESS THAN ZERO (1987) than to such later interpretations as PSYCHO might be a reflection of the source material, a collection of short stories that Ellis wrote in college a full decade before they were published in 1994.

THE INFORMERS's ensemble cast consists of the up-and-comers (Jon Foster, Lou Taylor Pucci) that populate the cadre of fair-haired kids who sleep with each other to vainly suppress their depression, and, as the broken adults who surround them, a bevy of veteran actors known for riding the line between character performer and movie star (Billy Bob Thornton, Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger). From both camps come characters whose buried longings and heartbreaking battles with morality only flicker and occasional twist just below their dead gazes. Brad Renfro is an exception, however, as a compromised hotel doorman--the addled heart he wears on his sleeve leads to a lonely redemption. Something similar can be said about the not-quite-so-noble Informers frontman Brian Metro (Mel Raido): as the British rock star tours California, his tortured hotel-room debauchery sends a cascade of strangely galvanizing sadness over the movie's adjacent storylines.

DVD Features


Region 1
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.40
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Subtitles - English
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary:
1. Director and Cast Commentary
Making Of:
1. Human Intersections: Making The Informers

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Technical Specifications
  • Closed Captioned
  • Color - Color
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Average Rating: 2.33 / 5
Number of Reviews: 3 (view all)
1.5 / 5  Posted on January 10, 2010
Reviewed by: Krissy

I'm just an average person and as such I won't go into the whole back story of this movie being based of a book and such nor will I talk to you about the director or any of that jazz. I will however...
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3.5 / 5  Posted on January 3, 2010
Reviewed by: Martin

This movie seems to have landed on its ass because of all the different storylines taking place throughout it, but that's exactly why I liked it. I was interested in seeing it because of the cast,...
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2 / 5  Posted on April 29, 2009
Reviewed by: Jarrod

'The Informers' is based on a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, whose previous works include American Psycho and The Rules of Attraction. This is, by far, the worst adaptation to date, a pointless exercise...
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