Rated R: for Language and suspenseful scenes.
Starring: Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer.
And Introducing: "The Pepsi Girl" Hallie Kate Eisenberg as Barbara Wigand.
Written by: Marie Brenner (Article "The Man Who Knew Too Much"), and Eric Roth.
Directed by: Michael Mann.
Produced by: Forward Pass, Blue Light Productions, Kaitz Productions, Mann/Roth Productions, Touchstone Pictures.
Distributed by: Buena Vista Pictures.
Based on the True Story of what it takes to make a contraversal "60 Minutes" News Article.
Clearly one of the best movies about the big tobbaco issue.
The Insider takes a look at the whisleblower Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe) of a big tobacco company who got fired.
He gets a good medical beneifits for his family, especially one of his daughters that has an asthma problem. But soon his former employer is threatening him, he gets followed, he gets threatening e-mail.
Why, you may ask. Well because he knows information about cigarettes being addictive. He gets a call from Lowell Bergman, (Pacino) a news investigator for CBS's "60 Minutes" who finds information on some tobacco info. Wigand meets with Bergman but says he has a confidentiality agreement with his former employer.
This causes some problems. Soon Wigand is taking an interview with Mike Wallace (Plummer) about cigarettes. What later comes up is a battle for the truth whether it is the truth or it isn't...
(For Reviewing purposes this is as much as I can give you about this movie)
Clearly one of the best movies I've seen. Good Actors that bring the actual people to life in this movie. good camera work and suspense. 10/10
99%/100% for those pesky white bars that appear when they cut from scene to scene. only one though.