Premiere: 'The Informers'

Director Gregor Jordan warned the audience in his introduction that everyone might not get or like "The Informers." In the seats surrounding me, there were a few grumbles, but in general, the audience not only enjoyed but identified with the '80s-themed drama.

The synergy may not have been with the drugs and constant sex, but the clothes, the music and the hairstyles were very evocative of the era without making caricatures of the people. Many times during the movie, a song would play, or a music video would be in the background, and there was a chuckle of familiarity throughout the theater.

Not a traditionally linear beginning-middle-end tale, the movie starts off with tragedy, then continues to display the excess of the '80s even in the face of a life lost. There were many different story lines being told, all intersecting through a group of young men and women who spend their days intoxicated and having sex (lots of nudity). The plots include a boozing rocker, a Hollywood executive, a newscaster and one that focused on Brad Renfro as a doorman whose ex-con uncle, played by recent Oscar nominee Mickey Rourke, kidnaps a kid. Lots going on.

In the Q&A following, it was revealed that the young actors had to be put through something of an '80s boot camp. When the people portraying the roles were "eating cereal and watching cartoons" (see Jon Foster video below) during the decade, a little help might've been on target. We caught up with two of the "decadent" youth (in the movie) -- Amber Heard and Jon Foster -- as they hurriedly entered the building on the premiere's small red carpet:

-- Jevon Phillips

Comments

[Nicki]

I can't wait to see this film!!!