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Blowing the Whistle on Whistleblower Movies

Covert meetings, threats, weight gain and other clichés from films about corporate takedowns.

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Posted September 14th, 2009, 10:09 AM by Alison Willmore

The covert meetings in hallways and parking garages, the warning threats, the for-the-role weight gain, the righteous speechifying — Steven Soderbergh mocks all of these standbys of the whistleblower movie in his new comedy “The Informant!” Inspired, on this week’s IFC News podcast we take a closer look at some of those clichés and the films that best embody them, from “The Insider” to Soderbergh’s own “Erin Brockovich.”

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Tags: All the President's Men, Erin Brockovich, George Clooney, Russell Crowe, Steven Soderbergh, Syriana, The Constant Gardener, The Informant!, The Insider

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