  The InformersMPAA Rating:
 for strong sexual content, nudity, drug use, pervasive language and some disturbing images.Extremely Offensive
Moviemaking Quality:
Primary Audience:
Adults
Genre:
Crime, Thriller, Drama
Length:
1 hr. 38 min.
Year of Release:
2009
USA Release:
April 24, 2009 (wide—482 theaters)
DVD: August 25, 2009  
Relevant Issues
About murder in the Bible How can I deal with temptations? Answer Should I save sex for marriage? Answer What are the consequences of sexual immorality? Answer  What do Hollywood celebrities believe about spiritual issues? Find out
 NUDITY—Why are humans supposed to wear clothes? Answer How can I tell if I'm getting addicted to sex or pornography? Answer What’s wrong with being gay? Answer What about gays needs to change? Answer Can a gay or lesbian person go to heaven? Answer What should be the attitude of the church toward homosexuals and homosexuality? Answer Read stories about those who have struggled with homosexuality
“Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.” Producer’s Synopsis: “Published in 1995, the collection of loosely connected short stories The Informers captures a week in L.A. in 1983, featuring movie executives, rock stars, a vampire and other morally challenged characters in adventures laced with sex, drugs and violence.” Editor’s Note: Bottomline—This extremely offensive movie is definitely one for followers of Jesus Christ to avoid. We will not be screening this film. Be warned of the following content: drugs (cocaine, heroin, etc.), drunkenness, graphic sex, debauchery and orgy, underage sex, gay sex, bisexual and premarital sex, strangulation, male rear and frontal nudity, female rear and frontal nudity.
See list of Relevant Issues—questions-and-answers.   Movie Critics
…If “The Informers” doesn't sound to you like a pleasant time at the movies, you are right. To repeat: dread, despair and doom. It is often however repulsively fascinating and has been directed by Gregor Jordan as a soap opera from hell, with good sets and costumes. If he finds no depths in the characters, well, what depths are there?… …It's a terrible muddle unless you take it as a satire on the Age of Ellis, the Jacqueline Susann for that Flock of Seagulls era. That way, the unintentional laughs seem almost ironic.… [Director] Jordan… wallows in it all, treating himself to as many shots of a topless Amber Heard as he can manage.… …The performances run the gamut from twitchy to catatonic, and the stoned stiffness of the actors seems to have less to do with the affectlessness of the characters than with their own confusion.… It has nudity, sex, drug use and violence. And it’s still boring. …director Jordan… is unable to wrangle any meaning from or raison d’être for his onscreen sybarites. …Not a single one offers us a reason to care—and without interesting camerawork or a plot to keep this thing moving forward, “The Informers” sinks back into the muck, like the La Brea Tar Pits in the town it calls home. |
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