The Insider

1999
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The Insider
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Title: The Insider

Original Title: The Insider

Year: 1999

Info

Release Dates

  • UK: March 10 2000
  • United States: November 05 1999

Plot

Jeffrey Wigand was a central witness in the lawsuits filed by Mississippi and 49 other states against the tobacco industry which eventually were settled for 246 billion. Wigand, former head of research and development and a corporate officer at Brown and Williamson, was a top scientist, the ultimate insider. No one like him had ever gone public before. Meanwhile, Lowell Bergman, investigative reporter and "60 Minutes" producer, mostly for Mike Wallace segments, arranged a legal defense team for Wigand and taped the famous Wallace interview with its devastating testimony. However, before the most newsworthy "60 Minutes" segment in years could air, Bergman would lose to a CBS corporate decision to kill it and would experience breakdown and bitter divisions within "60 Minutes." Wigand would find himself sued, targeted in a national smear campaign, divorced and facing possible incarceration. Wigand, having wagered so much and now unable to deliver his testimony to the American people, and Bergman, trying to defeat the smear campaign and force CBS to air the interview, are two ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. They find themselves in a fight from which no one will emerge as he entered and nothing will be the same again.

Awards

  • 2000 Academy Awards (Oscars): 7 0

Cast

Director:

Michael Mann Michael Mann

Russell Crowe

Russell Crowe

Jeffrey Wigand

Al Pacino

Al Pacino

Lowell Bergman

Christopher Plummer

Christopher Plummer

Mike Wallace

Stephen Tobolowsky

Stephen Tobolowsky

Eric Kluster

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