The Informers

The Informers

Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.

200898 min4.7 / 10

A bleak, fragmented portrait of 1980s Los Angeles excess, where disconnected wealthy characters pursue hedonism and numbness against a backdrop of moral emptiness and violence.

A collection of intersecting short stories set in early 1980s Los Angeles, depicts a week in the lives of an assortment of socially alienated, mainly well-off characters who numb their sense of emptiness with casual sex, violence, and drugs.

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