The Informers (15)
- Consumer Advice: Contains strong language, sex and hard drug use
- Run time: 1 hour 38 mins
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 17th July 2009
- Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke
- Directed by: Gregor Jordan
- Official Website: www.theinformers.com
- Distributor: Entertainment Film Dists
Plot Synopsis
In such works as “Less Than Zero” and “American Psycho” Brett Easton Ellis brilliantly dissects contemporary American society, a culture in which too much is never enough. Now, adapting his own acclaimed novel for the screen, he returns to the Los Angeles of the early 1980’s with a multi-strand narrative that 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, 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. Filmed with uncommon glamour and grit by acclaimed Australian director Gregor Jordan (“Ned Kelly,” “Buffalo Soldiers”), “The Informers” is an alternately blistering and chilling portrait of hedonism run amuck.