The Informers (2009)


Kim Basinger            Laura Sloan
Mickey Rourke           Peter
Austin Nichols          Martin
Rhys Ifans              Roger
Diego Klattenhoff       Dirk
Billy Bob Thornton      William Sloan
Winona Ryder            Cheryl Moore
Jon Foster              Graham Sloan
Amber Heard             Christie
Lou Taylor Pucci        Tim
Cameron Goodman         Susan Sloan
Theo Rossi              Spaz
Katy Mixon              Patty
Brad Renfro             Jack
Chris Isaak             Les Price
Aaron Himelstein (II)   Raymond

Directed by:            Gregor Jordan
Produced by:            Bret Easton Ellis, Brian Young, Jere Hausfater

In such works as "Less Than Zero" and "American Psycho" Bret Easton Ellis dissects contemporary 
American society, a culture in which too much is never enough. Now, adapting his own novel for 
the screen, he returns to the Los Angeles of the early 1980's with a multi-strand narrative that 
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, an 
amoral ex-con). Connecting all 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 a 
volcano.

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Loosely connected stories capture a week in L.A. in 1983, featuring movie executives, rock stars, 
a vampire and other morally challenged characters in adventures laced with sex, drugs and violence.