Billy Bob Thornton,
Kim Basinger,
Winona Ryder,
Jon Foster,
Amber Heard
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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 ... read more
DVD Release Date: August 25, 2009
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January 17, 2011"The Informers" is not so much a movie as it is a series of uneventful (and unconnected) scenes in which a bunch of unlikeable characters do drugs and have sex. What fun! If I must call it a film, it's the most shallow, dull and annoying one I've seen in ages. I can't beleive tha... read more
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December 7, 2010Interesting. Took a while to get into, and is a little confusing as there are so many characters in it, but works pretty well for a movie made up of a lot of little stories which sort of overlap. The theme is pretty much excess, and the 80's setting works well. There is a lot o... read more
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October 23, 2010A strange film, that seems totally random at times. It has a bit of an insight to the lives of a range of people in early 80's LA. From the spoilt rich kids, drugged up pop star, shady ex-con and a news reporter. The stories are very loosely interwoven. This is far from being any... read more
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June 12, 2010Brett Easton Ellis, author of "American Psycho" and "The Rules of Attraction" has a recent adaptation of his books, in "The Informers".
It has a top cast in Billy Bob Thornton, Winona Ryder, Kim Basinger & Mickey Rourke and I've enjoyed the previous Easton Ellis' films but sadl... read more -
April 8, 2010To say that The Informers is a travesty would be wrong -- even travesties are watchable. This is not a film that is so bad it's good, it's simply bad. There's no humor to be found, simply sheer, monotonous badness. It is scene after scene of characters you don't care about doing ... read more
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March 7, 2010There is a lot of bile thrown at this film for it's lack of morality but I actually find the film very moral: the idea of "good" is integral to the story and characters. It just never gets defined. Which is true for most people in the real world too, unless they have subscribed t... read more
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February 9, 2010Great performances in this desolate story by Bret Easton Ellis about moral decay amidst society glamour in the Los Angeles of 1983, showing rich people living of sex, drugs, power, wealth and fame, and the misery of their lives.
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November 17, 2009Not exactly the best transition from book-movie, but it really kept the theme and overall tone of the story. Lou Talyor Pucci was exactly the way I saw Tim and his whole segment was the strongest and most faithful to the novel. Jon Foster was also a really great choice for Graham... read more
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November 9, 2009I'm not going to bullshit you- I slept through half of this. Thank god, did I sleep through half of this.
This is usually the part where I give the plot synopsis. Right here in paragraph number two. But I'm not because I slept through half of this. And it was a good sleep becau... read more -
September 11, 2009This is a terrible movie. no this isnt really a movie. its a collection of short stories, but they are all incomplete. its like someone was writing 4 different books before they died, and hollywood just scrapped them all together. Any actor worth seeing (Billy Bob, Micky Rourke, ... read more
Critic Reviews
September 1, 2009
Rob Nelson, Variety
April 27, 2009
Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies
This just felt like a bunch of people in 1980s L.A. with blonde streaks in their hair listening to Wang Chung. Full Review
April 27, 2009
Ben Lyons, At the Movies
Gorgeous people and some well written dialogue aren't enough to make this a movie you should see. Full Review
April 24, 2009
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
It's by far the most slack, ho-hum movie ever made from Ellis' material. Full Review
April 24, 2009
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
The Informers is a movie so seamy it makes you want to take a bath afterward. Rarely has so much sin seemed so boring. Full Review
April 24, 2009
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
This one's a certifiable soul-sucker, dining out on its characters' venalities while wagging a finger at the horror, the horror. Full Review
April 24, 2009
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
Gregor Jordan's pointless adaptation of a Bret Easton Ellis book is successful only in the sense that it accurately mimics the emptiness of its subject. Full Review
April 24, 2009
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
The film is as flat as the Hollywood sign, with beautiful young people, all blonde, mostly naked, trying desperately to get up the energy to order something else from room service. Full Review
April 24, 2009
A.O. Scott, New York Times
The performances run the gamut from twitchy to catatonic, and the stoned stiffness of the actors seems to have less to do with the affectlessness of the characters than with their own confusion.
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