The Insider (1999)
Director:
Michael Mann
Tagline:
« Warning: Exposing the Truth May Be Hazardous »
Actors:
Lowell Bergman
Jeffrey Wigand
Mike Wallace
Liane Wigand
Don Hewitt
Rating:
(192’443 votes)
(192’443 votes)
Quotes:
« Mike Wallace: Who are these people?
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« Lowell Bergman: Ordinary people under extraordinary pressure, Mike. What the hell do you expect? Grace and consistency?
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« Mike Wallace: No that's fame. Fame has a fifteen minute half-life, infamy lasts a little longer.
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« Lowell Bergman: I fought for you and I still fight for you!
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« Jeffrey Wigand: You fought for me? You manipulated me! Into where I am now – staring at the Brown & Williamson building, it's all dark except for the tenth floor. That's the legal department, that's where they fuck with my life!
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« Lowell Bergman: Jeffrey, where are you going with this? Where are you going? (Pause) You are important to a lot of people, Jeffrey. You think about that, and you think about them. (Pause) I'm all out of heroes, man. Guys like you are in short supply.
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« Jeffrey Wigand: Yeah, guys like you, too.
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Trailer:
The Insider
Runtime:157 minutes
Plots:
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
Balls-out 60 Minutes Producer Lowell Bergman sniffs a story when a former research biologist for Brown and 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 come out?
Based on a true story about a CBS 60 Minutes-episode in 1994 on malpractices in the tobacco industry, that was not aired because CBS parent company Westinghouse objected. Pacino plays the 60 Minutes Producer.
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