Title: The Insider
Original Title: The Insider
Year: 1999
Info
- Country: USA
- Length: 157 Minutes (2 hours 37 min)
- Budget: $90,000,000
- Genre: Biography Drama Thriller
- Studios: Touchstone Pictures Buena Vista International
- Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)
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:
Jeffrey Wigand
Lowell Bergman
Mike Wallace
Don Hewitt
Eric Kluster
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