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The Informers (DVD, 2009)
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Ensemble drama co-written by Bret Easton Ellis, based on his 1994 collection of short stories following the adventures of a loosely-connected group of people in 1983 Los Angeles. Movie executives, rock stars and other morally dubious characters are involved in the stories, which are generously laced with sex, drugs and violence. The cast includes Winona Ryder, Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke and Brad Renfro, who died of a heroin overdose while the film was in the latter stages of production.
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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 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.Product Identifiers
ProducerMarco Weber
EAN5017239195914
eBay Product ID (ePID)73943181
Product Key Features
ActorMel Raido, Brad Renfro, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, Rhys Ifans, Jon Foster, Winona Ryder, Lou Taylor Pucci, Billy Bob Thornton, Amber Heard, Chris Isaak
Film/TV TitleThe Informers
DirectorGregor Jordan
LanguageEnglish
Run Time94 Mins
Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
FormatDVD
Release Year2009
FeaturesWidescreen
GenreDrama, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate15
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
ComposerChristopher Young
Production DesignerCecilia Montiel
ReviewsChicago Sun-Times - It tells many interweaving stories and is skillfully cast with actors who embody precisely what their rolls call for....Repulsively fascinating and has been directed by Gregor Jordan as a soap opera from hell, with good sets and costumes
Additional InformationThe 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 scriptÆs vampire subplot and oddly light-hearted 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 itÆs 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.<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>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 movieÆs adjacent storylines.
ScreenwriterNicholas Jarecki, Bret Easton Ellis
AuthorBret Easton Ellis
Sound sourceDolby Digital
Movie/TV TitleThe Informers
EditorRobert Brakey
Director of PhotographyPetra Korner
Consumer AdviceContains strong language, sex and hard drug use
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- 03 May, 2023
Really scary
This is a really scary dvd but, unfortunately in my view, it has a pretty lame ending.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 03 Jan, 2023
Inform
All good thanksVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 20 Mar, 2024
Lightweight & poor storyline
Bought on Jeremy Clarkson’s recommendation. Not my tasteVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
