One week in L.A. in 1983, the movie depicts an assortment of socially alienated, mainly well-off characters: movie executives, rock stars, a vampire and other morally challenged characters who numb their sense of emptiness with casual sex, alcohol, and drugs.
23 October 1986, Anderson, South Carolina, USA
25 July 1982, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
10 October 1985, Buffalo Grove, Illinois, USA
11 June 1984, Gjakove, Kosovo
11 March 1969, New York City, New York, USA
24 April 1980, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
11 October 1987, Orange County, California, USA
22 April 1986, Austin, Texas, USA
16 September 1952, Schenectady, New York, USA
1975, New Zealand
26 June 1956, Stockton, California, USA
3 August 1984, Fairfield, Iowa, USA
4 June 1975, Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA
2 November 1986, Stockholm, Sweden
24 August 1984, Houston, Texas, USA
27 July 1985, Seaside Heights, New Jersey, USA
30 November 1979, French River, Nova Scotia, Canada
30 June 1983, Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR [now Armenia]
29 February 1980, Denver, Colorado, USA
July 05, 2011
Brad Renfro in his last movie role, playing a wannabe film actor who sprays out filthy perspiration like a collie emerging from a sewer. It's possible this role killed Renfro.April 27, 2009
This just felt like a bunch of people in 1980s L.A. with blonde streaks in their hair listening to Wang Chung.April 24, 2009
It's by far the most slack, ho-hum movie ever made from Ellis' material.September 01, 2009
Rating less than zero on the sophistication scale, The Informers is thus a totally faithful adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' novel--and an accurate look at early '80s-era Los Angeles.April 24, 2009
The Informers is a movie so seamy it makes you want to take a bath afterward. Rarely has so much sin seemed so boring.July 24, 2009
It has a good cast and a terrific 1980s soundtrack (Devo, Simple Minds), but it also has the superficiality of a TV soap. The Informers is not so bad that you can't sit back and enjoy it, but nor is it good enough to go and see.August 23, 2009
...a ninety-eight-minute snooze-fest.August 30, 2009
Imagine American Psycho with less violence but more nudity, transplanted from New York to California and stripped of all self-awareness. That's The Informers.July 17, 2009
We may not care about these cokeheads, but only rarely does Jordan fall into knee-jerk retribution.August 18, 2011
Heaven protect us from any more Bret Easton Ellis versions of Tales of the Empty Lives of Los Angeles.