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Blowing the Whistle on Whistleblower Movies
By Alison Willmore
, Matt Singer
on 09/14/2009
"The Informant!", Warner Bros. Pictures, 2009
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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