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The Insider (1999)

7.3 Listal rating
8 IMDB rating

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This film tells the true story of Jeffrey Wigand, a former tobacco executive, who decided to appear on the CBS-TV News show "60 Minutes." As matter of conscience partially prodded by producer Lowell Bergman, he revealed that, the tobacco industry was not only aware that cigarettes are addictive & harmful, but deliberately worked on in ... (more)


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Starring (View all) :
Al Pacino

Al Pacino

Lowell Bergman
Russell Crowe

Russell Crowe

Jeffrey Wigand
Christopher Plummer

Christopher Plummer

Mike Wallace
Diane Venora

Diane Venora

Liane Wigand
Philip Baker Hall

Philip Baker Hall

Don Hewitt
Lindsay Crouse

Lindsay Crouse

Sharon Tiller
Debi Mazar

Debi Mazar

Debbie De Luca
Stephen Tobolowsky

Stephen Tobolowsky

Eric Kluster
Colm Feore

Colm Feore

Richard Scruggs
Bruce McGill

Bruce McGill

Ron Motley


Written by (View all) :
Eric Roth

Eric Roth

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Smokescreen

Posted : 2 months, 1 week ago at Sep 11 1:59

Russell Crowe is the insider trying to expose the truth of the mega-business of tabacco & Al Pacino is the outsider who finds himself involunteerily pitted against the corporate politicks of the media which both men were counting on to help in the cause. Watching both actors on screen is an example of the kind of movie chemistry that can result from the combination of solid acting abilities along with the directing & writing powess of Mr. Mann. And all this without the need of any special effects or CGI, & yet a film that still provides a level of entertainment on par with that of any big budget blockerbuster.




Rating : 9/10

Inside out.

Posted : 9 months ago at Feb 23 7:03
"I told the truth." A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a "60 Minutes" expose on Big Tobacco. Al Pacino: Lowell Bergman Against this backdrop director Michael Mann gives us The Insider, a film every bit the equal in seriousness to All the President's Men. Russell Crowe plays Tobacco Executive Jeffrey Wigand. Al Pacino is Sixty Minutes Producer Lowell Bergman. Wigand has just been fired from his $300,000 a year job. Bergman wants help deciphering a tobacco industry document. The two of them start an uneasy relationship. The film suggests Wigand's employer began spooking his family BEFORE the executive agreed to become a whistleblower for Sixty Minutes. I doubt that is true. Soon the two men are developing the story. The M...Read more

Rating : 9/10

ah! the world of journalism...

Posted : 2 years, 4 months ago at Jun 27 22:10
This is the true story of Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe), a man who signed a confidentiality agreement before getting fired from a big tobacco company. Hotshot *60 minutes* producer Bergman (Al Pacino) asks Wigand to decipher some technical documents, and soon realizes there's a bigger story hiding inside Wigand. On top of that, Wigand is recruited to testity in Mississippi for a case that claims cigarettes *are* addictive. The *60 minutes* piece will eventually be pulled because of corporate pressure. Wigand deals with his personal dilemma, and Bergman battles the corporation. Both men will struggle against Big Tobacco's attempts to silence them and against the CBS television network's cowardly complict preference of putting money as a higher priority over the truth. True colors of ...Read more

Rating : 8/10