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London,
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Reader rating
Dir: Gregor Jordan.
Cast: Jon Foster, Billy Bob Thornton, Lou Taylor Pucci, Chris Isaak, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, Winona Ryder, Brad Renfro, Rhys Ifans, Amber Heard
Description: Ensemble drama set in '80s Los Angeles before the spectre of AIDS cast its long shadow over the pill poppers and thrill seekers. Drug dealer Graham feeds the habits of his many clients, oblivious to the disintegrating marriage of his rich mother Laura and film executive father William. Meanwhile, crook Peter steals little boys to order and his nephew Jack pursues a dream of becoming an actor.
Country: US. 2009. 97mins
Stewing in their own juices: Jon Foster and Amber Heard
In Australian director Gregor Jordan’s film, Billy Bob Thornton plays a Hollywood studio boss with a sad, pill-popping wife (Kim Basinger), a television presenter mistress (Winona Ryder) and children who despise him (Jon Foster and Cameron Goodman).
There is also Mel Raido as a zonked-out rock star, Mickey Rourke as a low-life criminal and an assortment of youths (including Amber Heard) who, when they are not banging each other in bed, are snorting cocaine and being cooked by the sun.
This is LA in the Eighties, the City of Angels transmogrified into the city of alcohol, drug abuse and burgeoning Aids. It is not exactly a happy place.
The Informers — adapted by Bret Easton Ellis from his own book of short stories, with the help of Nicholas Jarecki — presents us with a kind of hedonistic hell where the rich and beautiful stew in their own unhappy juices.
“I want someone to tell me what is good and what is bad,” says one young man as he sits in his car in that over-familiar spot overlooking the city. Some hope with this lot.
Jordan gives all this an entirely appropriate sheen and the cast play well through glazed eyes. The film will fascinate those who love to see the tormented lives of those who seem luckier than the rest of us.
It will also seem as empty as the hell it describes to others.
Being a cynic, I believed every word of it — but would have felt better if there was just one admirable person in it.
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