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In THE INFORMANT, Mark Whitacre, MATT DAMON, is a biochemist and Vice President at ADM, an agricultural company based in rural Illinois, where 'corn goes in one end and profit comes out the other.' The company, as a matter of course, adds lysine to its products, but Mark causes a stir when he tells his boss that there's a mole within the ...

You can take the girl out of New Zealand but you can't take the New Zealander out of Melanie Lynskey.

ABU DHABI // Having already worked with some of Hollywood's leading men, the actress Melanie Lynskey paid tribute to two more at the UAE premiere of her latest film last night.

When Charlie learns that Alan has been dating Judith and hoping to get back together, he does everything he can think of to keep them apart.

Mark Whitacre spills the beans about illegal happenings at his company to the FBI in the amusing dark comedy "The Informant!" Mark Whitacre is the man every nerd aspires to be.

Starring: Matt Damon and Melanie Lynskey; screenplay by Scott Z. Burns, based on the book "The Informant " by Kurt Eichenwald; produced by George Clooney, Gregory Jacobs, Jennifer Fox, Howard Braunstein and Eichenwald; directed by Steven Soderbergh Running time: 108 minutes Parental guide: R During "The Informant!" Mark Whitacre quite literally ...

S TEVEN SODERBERGH is a chameleonlike director whose effects depend on visible changes of emphasis--the ambient glow in the background, the blur in the foreground, the slight sway of an unmoored camera.

New Plymouth actress Melanie Lynskey - plucked from high school to star in Peter Jackson's 1994 film Heavenly Creatures - has roles in three of the most talked-about movies at this year's Toronto International Film Festival.

The Informant! is about Mark Whitacre , a businessman-turned-haphazard-goverment-informant. When the federal government decides to go after an agri-business giant with a price-fixing accusation after receiving incriminating evidence submitted by Mark, the company's vice president, they turn the whistleblower into an informant.

Whether she's playing a lovable stalker, a vengeful '50s schoolgirl, or the kind of woman who'd bring her baby to a bar, a sweetness emerges whenever actress Melanie Lynskey appears on the screen.

Melanie Lynskey as Pauline Parker and Kate Winslet as Juliet Hulme in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures .

The Venice Film Festival is set to have a stronger American presence than last year.