The Informant is a true story that parallels a mixture of A Beautiful Mind and The Insider -- where real life Ph.D.s had done something extraordinary. Based on Kurt Eichenwald's 2000 book, The Informant is the tale of Mark Whitacre (played by Matt Damon), an Ivy League Ph.D. who was a rising star at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in the early 1990s. The bipolar hero wound up blowing the whistle on the company's price fixing tactics and became the highest-ranked executive to ever turn whistleblo ...[Read Story ]
