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Thursday, September 17, 2009
Meet the real-life Informant!
Tomorrow I will write about Matt Damon’s performance as Mark Whitacre, an FBI informant who fingered his employer in what was then the biggest price-fixing case in U.S. history.
Today, however, I’d like to introduce you to the real Mark Whitacre, a Warren County native. I spoke to Whitacre about the experience of seeing his story become a movie; you can read my interview here.
My review of The Informant! will post Friday.
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What’s opening Friday, September 18?
September’s one A-list movie opens tomorrow; there are a few other high-profile prospects that might not be high-profile movies.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: My enthusiasm for this animated feature had been kind of muted. Given the positive buzz so far, I might check it out after all.
The Informant!: The first great movie of the fall. Review posts Friday.
Jennifer’s Body: I had been kind of curious to see this horror-comedy. Now, given some of the reviews that desecrate Jennifer’s Body, suddenly I’m not so curious.
Love Happens: But does much happen in this latest Jennifer Aniston romance? My gut tells me no.
At the arthouses
Neon hangs on to Departures and opens Adoration, about a high school French teacher who gives her class a translation exercise based on a real news story about a terrorist who plants a bomb in the airline luggage of his pregnant girlfriend. Also opening: Tetro, the latest film from Francis Ford Coppola, which really hasn’t attracted much attention despite the director’s credits.
The Little Art opens the well-regarded In the Loop.
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