The informant! - 2009

First of all, the ! is in the title, I didn’t add that myself. Now, I liked watching it once but it’s not something to watch and re-watch. It’s a slow story, but since I didn’t know it already it was all new to me so it had a kind of mystery aura because there was clearly something wrong right from the start, and slowly I understood what it was. 
The story in details:
Marc Whitacre is a real person here portrayed by Matt Damon. This is a true story apparently. He had an important position in a big firm that had something to do with corn, they extract substances from it or something. The firm is having problem because there is a virus affecting the corn. Marc goes to his bosses saying that a Japanese guy knew all their company secrets and was asking 10 million dollars to “help” them defeat the virus. Basically he’s saying that there is a traitor in the firm who worked with the competitors, who planted the virus and they’re now being blackmailed to resolve the situation. It would cost the firm less than what they’d lose wasting time, but they still don’t like to yield and contact the FBI. Special Agent (but FBI agents are all special or only field agents are special?) Brian Shepard (Scott Bakula ) goes to his house to bug his phone, and Marc’s wife Ginger encourages Marc to “tell him everything”, so completely out of the blue Marc tells him a big story about orders received from his bosses and international plans to fix prices, which is illegal. The FBI is of course interested. Marc says he wants to do the right thing. He secretly works for the FBI for two and a half years, recording conversations at meetings, keeping them updated to everything that happens at his firm ADM. When they think they have enough they move and do a blitz. It could be over now, but somehow it turns out that Marc, like others at ADM, was taking bribes all the time, and not only that but I think he was embezzling, using some people who owed him their salary for some scam, or something, anyway he stole 9 million dollars ... it starts admitting 1, then 2, then 5, then 7.7, he lies so much the FBI revoke his immunity and go after him. Maybe it all started when ADM, trying to defend itself, found out that Marc forged signatures and faked contracts. He refused to take a deal so at the end while the people at ADM did only three years he ended up doing 8 (or 9).
It was a strange story and a strange character, at the end they say he was diagnosed as bipolar although that’s not the bipolar behaviour I’ve learned, still there was clearly something strange about him. From the start, he made a big deal out of everything, acting as if the whole world depended on him and he was more important than he seemed to be. He presented his boss with the blackmail request (it will turn out that it was him who created and maybe defeated the virus, and he invented the blackmailer) and then made a big deal when they talked about FBI. The agent came and was about to leave, and it was Marc encouraged by his wife (you tell him or I will, which shows that he had talked about it with her and she knew everything) to start the whole thing by calling him back and telling him of the ‘price fixing scheme’. We heard his thoughts and again he felt important, calling the agent ‘Brian’ and imagining the two of them playing golf or something. All that happened, he started it.  To explain why he ‘wanted to do the right thing’ he kept telling people that his parents had died when he was six and a rich man adopted him and gave him a comfortable life, he had been lucky and now wanted to do good, but his parents were not dead at all and he was never adopted.
He kept telling lies, that there was a mole at ADM, that he was in a meeting and couldn’t meet the agents, that the price fixing thing had stopped, and more, all lies. When they went after him for the money stolen, he 1.was shocked that the firm would do this to him, he kept imagining that they’d understand and he’d keep his job there, which was ridiculous of course; 2.tried to sue the FBI saying that Brian had hit him with a suitcase... 3. forged a letter from a doctor saying that they had caused him great distress that could lead him to suicide or something 4.kept lying about how much money he had taken. 
It was a strange story and I don’t know what happened to his money, but I googled him and apparently the real Marc is now an important figure in another firm....
Anyway, it seems that he was right in the price-fixing scheme, there was really something illegal there. 
Other actors:
his wife - Melanie Lynskey
Cheviron - Tom Wilson
Special Agent Bob - Joel McHale