The Informant!

I forget if...

It was like the same time as The Informant and The Men Who Stare at Goats came out as well.

Because these were all movies I was very excited for.

They all disappointed me.

Well, I think you should re-watch The Informant because I love that movie.

I think it's

really funny.

I think I'd appreciate it more.

Yeah

... like such a perfect combination between, like, The Informant and Catch Me If You Can.

Oh, oh, yeah, yeah.

And I was like, "Oh, I love this."

starring Matt Damon.

But the film omitted what both Mark Whitaker and I consider to be the most important chapter of his life, and that is his conversion to Christianity while serving a lengthy federal prison sentence.

A much better account of Mark Whitaker's life emerged in Marvin Olasky's 2009 interview with Whitaker, which took place in front of a live audience at the King's College.

He did that interview for World Magazine, and it was an event that I helped organize, and I even wrote about it.

Best Performance in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy went to Robert Downey Jr. as the title character in Sherlock Holmes.

beating out Matt Damon in The Informant, Daniel Day-Lewis for Nine, Joseph Gordon-Levitt from 500 Days of Summer, and Michael Stuhlberg for A Serious Man.

Actress went to Meryl Streep for Julia and Julia, beating out Sandra Bullock for The Proposal, Marion Cotillard for Nine, Julia Roberts for Duplicity, and Meryl Streep for It's Complicated.

Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture.

Best Screenplay.

went to Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner for Up in the Air, beating out Neil Blomkamp and Terry Tatchell for District 9, Mark Bull for The Hurt Locker, Nancy Myers for It's Complicated, and Quentin Tarantino for Inglorious Bastards.

Best original score went to Michael Giacchino for Up, beating out The scores for The Informant, Avatar, A Single Man, and Where the Wild Things Are.

Best Original Song also went to The Weary Kind from Crazy Heart.

It's a good movie.

I just started watching The Informant.

And I like it way more than I thought I would.

Who's in that again? It's Matt Damon.

All right, do it.

I'm going to go

finish the informant.

All right, you guys have a good night.

Rowan wrote 28 Weeks Later, which is the second film in the franchise, The American with George Clooney, Before I Go to Sleep, which she also directed, and The Informer with Rosamund Pike.

Okay, I was thinking The Informant.

No, no, not that one.

Not that one.

I loved him in The Departed.

We both liked The Informant.

You love True Grit.

We love Contagion.

And Matt Damon's like, that's going to be tough.

That's going to be tough for you.

So I don't think it's a terribly complex character, but again, Matt Damon's just engaging to watch, interesting to watch, you know, and this isn't as complex a character as, say, the one he plays in The Informant, where there is a real kind of internal conflict between what the character wants, and he has clear obstacles in his way, and his, you know, personality is the biggest obstacle, like the fact that he is... just an unrelenting and prolific liar presents enormous hurdles for his character to succeed.

I am a huge, huge fan of the movie The Informant.