Le gouvernement étasunien décide de s'en prendre à un géant de l'agro-industrie avec une accusation de fixation des prix, sur la base des preuves soumises par leur témoin vedette, le vice-pr... Tout lireLe gouvernement étasunien décide de s'en prendre à un géant de l'agro-industrie avec une accusation de fixation des prix, sur la base des preuves soumises par leur témoin vedette, le vice-président devenu informateur Mark Whitacre.Le gouvernement étasunien décide de s'en prendre à un géant de l'agro-industrie avec une accusation de fixation des prix, sur la base des preuves soumises par leur témoin vedette, le vice-président devenu informateur Mark Whitacre.
- Prix
- 1 victoire et 21 nominations au total
- Alexander Whitacre
- (as Lucas Carroll)
Avis en vedette
The story is pretty simple and the anti "Hero" is quite ordinary. Which might make it less appealing to a large audience, but it wasn't aimed to crack the box office. Soderbergh captures a weird feeling in this movie, that leaves you with a weird taste at the end. Of course, you could argue, that the movie shows too little of Damons wife, maybe even too little of his employer. But as it is, it's a pretty solid and greatly edited work.
Even the voice over, which seems and is completely out of place, works really good in this movie. I guess even the Team America members would change their opinion of "Matt Damon" after watching this one. Give it a try, but don't expect laugh out loud comedy (not the ordinary kind that is).
The true story of Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon) who worked for a giant firm that produced lysine chemicals in products to be consumed by humans. Whitacre maintained a degree of honesty and integrity to his work, but when he uncovered evidence of price fixing with rival foreign companies, he turned undercover informant for the FBI...but, as events rolled on, it would appear he may have known a bit more about what was going on himself than he was letting on.
Playing like a lighter version of 1999's The Insider, Steven Soderbergh's dramatization of corporate corruption in the early 90s is amusingly on edge through-out, with Damon's constant muted voice-overs gently guiding us along this tale of principles and ethics clashing with corporate greed and deception. Damon is affable enough in the lead role (certainly hard to think of any actor who could have done it better) and the story is pretty relevant and dynamic. There's nothing about it that really makes it unforgettable or brilliant, but it's certainly worth a bit of your time. ***
-A little longer than I would've liked and had trouble holding my attention
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesTo prepare for the role of the overweight character Mark Whitacre, Matt Damon purposely gained weight prior to filming. He did this by eating lots of hamburgers, pizza, and dark beer, which he described in an interview as being "really, really, really fun."
- GaffesThe film takes place from 1992-1994, yet the cars have Illinois license plates that first appeared in 2001.
- Citations
Mark Whitacre: When polar bears hunt, they crouch down by a hole in the ice and wait for a seal to pop up. They keep one paw over their nose so that they blend in, because they've got those black noses. They'd blend in perfectly if not for the nose. So the question is, how do they know their noses are black? From looking at other polar bears? Do they see their reflections in the water and think, "I'd be invisible if not for that." That seems like a lot of thinking for a bear.
- Générique farfeluPrologue: "While this motion picture is based on real events, certain incidents and characters are composites, and dialog has been dramatized. So there."
- Bandes originalesTrust Me
Music by Marvin Hamlisch
Lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman
Produced and Performed by Steve Tyrell
Steve Tyrell appears courtesy of E1 Music
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Détails
Box-office
- Budget
- 22 000 000 $ US (estimation)
- Brut – États-Unis et Canada
- 33 316 821 $ US
- Fin de semaine d'ouverture – États-Unis et Canada
- 10 464 314 $ US
- 20 sept. 2009
- Brut – à l'échelle mondiale
- 41 771 168 $ US
- Durée1 heure 48 minutes
- Couleur
- Mixage
- Rapport de forme
- 1.85 : 1