The Informant! (2009) — Screenplay
An ambitious executive at a global agribusiness firm becomes an FBI whistleblower, risking everything to expose a massive price-fixing conspiracy while imagining himself a corporate hero.
- Written by
- Scott Z. Burns, Kurt Eichenwald
- Genre
- Comedy, Drama, Biography, Crime
- Length
- 107 pages
This script is a masterclass in unreliable narration, using Whitacre's self-aggrandizing voiceover to create a darkly comic tone that undercuts his heroic self-image. Study how the dialogue and internal monologue work in counterpoint to reveal character, and how the slow-burn pacing builds tension from a seemingly mundane workplace into a high-stakes legal thriller.
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