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The Informers

2008 · 98 min

A cold, fragmented dive into 1980s excess, offering little warmth or redemption, only a lingering sense of emptiness and moral decay.

Directed by
Gregor Jordan
Genres
Drama, Crime, Thriller
Tagline
Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
Overview
A collection of intersecting short stories set in early 1980s Los Angeles, depicts a week in the lives of an assortment of socially alienated, mainly well-off characters who numb their sense of emptiness with casual sex, violence, and drugs.

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Directed by
Gregor Jordan
Genres
Drama, Crime, Thriller
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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • addiction
  • corruption
  • identity
  • death
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language strong
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror3
Humour2
Realism8
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness9
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama, crime, thriller
Directed by
Gregor Jordan
Written by
Bret Easton Ellis, Nicholas Jarecki
Starring
Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Jon Foster, Amber Heard, Winona Ryder, Mickey Rourke, Rhys Ifans, Chris Isaak
Music
Christopher Young
Cinematography
Petra Korner
Runtime
98 min
Country
Germany, United States of America
Languages
English

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