The Informers
2009 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
A drama based on Bret Easton Ellis' novel (writer of 'American Psycho') set in 1983 Los Angeles, where movie executives, rock stars, a vampire, and other morally challenged character mix and commingle. Sex, drugs, and new wave...Los Angeles in the early 1980s: a time of excess and decadence, and nobody captures it better than Easton Ellis as he coadapts his own acclaimed novel for the screen. Its multistrand narrative deftly balances a vast array of characters, who represent both the top of the heap (a Hollywood dream merchant, a dissolute rock star, an aging newscaster) and the bottom (a voyeuristic doorman and an amoral ex-con). Connecting his intertwining strands are the quintessential Ellis protagonists—a group of beautiful, blonde young men and women who sleep all day and party all night, doing drugs—and one another—with abandon, never realizing that they are dancing on the edge of an abyss.
Direction Gregor Jordan
Cast Billy Bob Thornton · Kim Basinger · Mickey Rourke · Winona Ryder · Jon Foster · Amber Heard · Rhys Ifans · Chris Isaak · Austin Nichols · Lou Taylor Pucci · Mel Raido · Brad Renfro · Theo Rossi
Soundtrack Christopher Young
Screenplay Nicholas Jarecki · Bret Easton Ellis
Cinematography Petra Korner
Original title The Informers
4.1
1K votes (FilmAffinity)
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