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The Insider (1999) 7.9
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Metascore: 84/100
Reviews: 495 user | 200 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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| Al Pacino | ... | ||
| Russell Crowe | ... | ||
| Christopher Plummer | ... | ||
| Diane Venora | ... | ||
| Philip Baker Hall | ... | ||
| Lindsay Crouse | ... | ||
| Debi Mazar | ... | ||
| Stephen Tobolowsky | ... | ||
| Colm Feore | ... | ||
| Bruce McGill | ... | ||
| Gina Gershon | ... | ||
| Michael Gambon | ... | ||
| Rip Torn | ... | ||
| 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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Warning: Exposing the Truth May Be Hazardous See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
5 November 1999 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Man of the People See more »Box Office
Budget:
$90,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£437,078 (UK) (10 March 2000)Gross:
$28,965,197 (USA) (21 April 2000)Company Credits
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[we see Lowell turning to see Mike shouting at the monitors in disbelief]
Mike Wallace: [to Eric Kluster] You cut it! You cut the guts out of what I SAID!
Eric Kluster: It was a time consideration, Mike.
Mike Wallace: Time? Bullshit! You corporate lackey! Who told you your incompetent little fingers had the requisite skills to edit me! I'm trying to band-aid a situation, here, and you're too dim to...
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Written and Performed by Richard Gilks
Courtesy of Associated Production Music
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In a scene in Bergman's office, Mike Wallace tells Lowell Bergman, "I don't plan to spend the end of my days wandering in the wilderness of National Public Radio." In reality, Bergman left CBS in 1998 (not right after the Jeffrey Wigand piece, as depicted in the movie) to work for Public Television. See more »Goofs
In the beginning of the film when Mike Wallace refuses to move his chair away from the Sheik, the translator translates Mike's English into Farsi to the Arabic-speaking Hezbollah. Farsi and Arabic are not the same language and usually Persians and Arabs do not understand each others' languages, unless they studied it. See more »Quotes
Mike Wallace: [after watching a preview of the "60 Minutes" Wigand interview that has been edited] Where's the rest? Where the hell's the rest?[we see Lowell turning to see Mike shouting at the monitors in disbelief]
Mike Wallace: [to Eric Kluster] You cut it! You cut the guts out of what I SAID!
Eric Kluster: It was a time consideration, Mike.
Mike Wallace: Time? Bullshit! You corporate lackey! Who told you your incompetent little fingers had the requisite skills to edit me! I'm trying to band-aid a situation, here, and you're too dim to...
[...]
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Soundtracks
"Smokey Mountain Waltz"Written and Performed by Richard Gilks
Courtesy of Associated Production Music
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Forget Russell Crowe's performance by numbers in 'Gladiator' (good though that film was), and enjoy his acting talent here alongside Al Pacino. Both men give inspired and classy masterclasses in how to put a character across. 'The Insider' is unusual, it is long and wordy (not often the case in modern movies), it has a superb soundtrack - 'Sacrifice', in particular - and it makes you involved, makes you care.
Curious, then, that a Roman epic outshone it. A good epic, but not in the same class.