Howard Braunstein, Jennifer Fox, Gregory Jacobs, Michael Jaffe
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Matt Damon, Frank Welker, Melanie Lynskey, Scott Bakula, Patton Oswalt, Tony Hale, Thomas F. Wilson, Joel McHale, Eddie Jemison, Mike O'Malley, Rusty...
Ivy League Ph.D. Mark Whitacre, a rising star at Decatur, Illinois based Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in the early 1990s who wound up blowing the whistle on the company’s price-fixing tactics. The bipolar whistle blower in the film as Whitacre displays bizarre behavior including recklessness and grandiosity.
One night in early November 1992, the high-ranking ADM executive confessed to FBI agent Brian Shepard that ADM executives — including Whitacre himself — had routinely met with competitors to fix the price of lysine, a food additive. As the highest-ranked executive to ever turn whistle blower in US history,
Whitacre secretly gathered hundreds of hours of video and audio over several years to present to the FBI.