'The Informers' Set To Be Extremely Polarizing Says Sundance Festival Head; "It's A Full Target"

The film adaptation of the debauched Brett Easton Ellis novel, “The Informers” has a crazy big cast which includes newcomers Amber Heard (from “Pineapple Express” apparently she’s naked for half the film), Lou Taylor Pucci (“The Go-Getter”) alongside veterans like Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger, Winona Ryder, Billy Bob Thornton, Chris Isaak and Brad Renfro, in his final role (he died of a heroin overdose in mid January of 2008).

The film premieres at the Sundance Film festival next week, but according to an interview with the New York Times, even the the festival’s director Geoffrey Gilmore, the decadent film full of drugs, sex and illicit behavior might not be for everyone. In fact, it could be totally polarizing.

“If you want to take a shot at it, it’s a full target,” Gilmore admitted to the Times. Think we’re exaggerating? Senator Entertainment head Marco Weber says the exact same thing. “I know it will be polarizing, it isn’t for everyone.”

An extended Playlist member saw it today and they were audibly shaken, couldn’t really tell whether they liked it and seemed dizzied and taken aback by the experience, so that really echoes the idea that ‘Informers’ might be a difficult pill to swallow. “I kinda feel sick,” was the first reaction our comrade sent after leaving the screening.

Another Senator biwig called the film, “a guilty pleasure,” Jesus. This thing could be awesome or a total trainwreck.

As for all the mix of big personalities on the set, Billy Bob Thornton cracked, “You’ve got to be worried when I’m the sanest person on the set.”

Here’s the trailer which you may not have seen yet (hello BE Ellis, the ’80s, cocaine and New Order). Our question is does a country in a recession want to see a film about a decade filled with the exact opposite issues: hedonistic excess?