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The Insider (1999) 7.9
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7.9/10 from 126,656 users
Metascore: 84/100
Reviews: 517 user | 205 critic | 34 from Metacritic.com A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a "60 Minutes" expose on Big Tobacco. Director:Michael Mann |
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Cast
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| Russell Crowe | ... | ||
| Christopher Plummer | ... | ||
| Diane Venora | ... | ||
| Philip Baker Hall | ... | ||
| Lindsay Crouse | ... | ||
| Debi Mazar | ... | ||
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| Lynne Thigpen | ... | ||
| Hallie Kate Eisenberg | ... | ||
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Balls-out "60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman sniffs a story when a former research biologist for Brown & Williamson, Jeff Wigand, won't talk to him. When the company leans hard on Wigand to honor a confidentiality agreement, he gets his back up. Trusting Bergman and despite a crumbling marriage, he goes on camera for a Mike Wallace interview and risks arrest for contempt of court. Westinghouse is negotiating to buy CBS, so CBS attorneys advise CBS News to shelve the interview and avoid a lawsuit. "60 Minutes" and CBS News bosses cave, Wigand is hung out to dry, Bergman is compromised, and the CEOs of Big Tobacco may get away with perjury. Will the truth out? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Two men driven to tell the truth... whatever the cost. See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
5 November 1999 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
60 Minutes See more »Filming Locations:
Long Beach Polytechnic High School - 1600 Atlantic Avenue, Long Beach, California, USA See more »Box Office
Budget:
$90,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$6,712,361 (USA) (5 November 1999)Gross:
$28,965,197 (USA) (21 April 2000)Company Credits
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Toward the end of the film, Mike Wallace shows Lowell Bergman an unflattering article and editorial about CBS in the latest New York Times. The article and editorial are clearly from different sections of the paper. This would seem to be a goof, since the Times' op-ed pieces usually appear in the back of the main news section. The real-life pieces to which this scene refers, however, were published on a Sunday (12 November 1995), which means that the news and editorials would in fact have appeared in separate sections, just one more example of director Michael Mann's eye for detail. See more »Goofs
When Lowell Bergman has an argument with Jeffrey Wigand outside of his house in the rain, the amount of wetness on the back of Wigand's suit jacket varies from soaked to almost completely dry. See more »Quotes
Mike Wallace: "Mike"? Try "Mr. Wallace." We work in the same corporation, doesn't mean we work in the same profession. What are you gonna do now? You gonna finesse me? Lawyer me some more? I've been in this profession fifty fucking years. You and the people you work for are destroying the most-respected, the highest-rated, the most-profitable show on this network!See more »
Russell Crowe at his best as a Kentucky tobacco executive in Eric Roth and Michael Mann's masterpiece, "The Insider," is one of the most underrated American films ever. Not only is it important historically for its political implications - not about tobacco, but about conflicts of commercial interest that control freedom of speech along the airwaves in the U.S.- it is a great story and it is true. Disney had no idea how to market "The Insider" and essentially sold it as tobacco movie and it is so much more. Pacino gives a grand A plus performance as a Long Island Jewish producer and halfway through the movie I forgot he was Al Pacino. Even better Christopher Plummer masterfully captures the full essence of Mike Wallace. Gina Gershon could turn lust from a stone as always. Michael Mann seems to always pull strong performances from his actors, and Eric Roth who brilliantly adapted "Forrest Gump" did the same here with Mann. Though long, "The Insider" is never boring and a movie all Americans should see twice to make sure they fully comprehend regardless of how you feel about the tobacco debate.