Based on Kurt Eichenwald’s 2000 book, “The Informant” is the tale of Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon), a rising star at Decatur’s Archer Daniels Midland in the early 1990s who wound up blowing the whistle on the company’s price-fixing tactics. 

As the highest-ranked executive to ever turn whistleblower, Whitacre secretly gathered hours of video and audio over several years to present to the FBI. 

In the story — a dark comedy/thriller in director Steven Soderbergh’s hands — Whitacre’s good deed dovetails with his own major infractions and struggle with bipolar disorder.