A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
- Director
- Writers
- Marie Brenner(based on the Vanity Fair article "The Man Who Knew Too Much" by)
- Eric Roth
- Michael Mann
- Stars
Top credits
- Director
- Writers
- Marie Brenner(based on the Vanity Fair article "The Man Who Knew Too Much" by)
- Eric Roth
- Michael Mann
- Stars
- Nominated for 7 Oscars
- 23 wins & 58 nominations total
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- Director
- Writers
- Marie Brenner(based on the Vanity Fair article "The Man Who Knew Too Much" by)
- Eric Roth
- Michael Mann
- All cast & crew
- See more cast details at IMDbPro
Storyline
Balls-out 60 Minutes (1968) Producer Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino) sniffs a story when a former research biologist for Brown & Williamson, Jeff Wigand (Russell Crowe), 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 (Christopher Plummer) 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 (1968) 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? —<jhailey@hotmail.com>
- Taglines
- Warning: Exposing the Truth May Be Hazardous
- Genres
- Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated R for language
- Parents guide
Did you know
- TriviaMike Moore, the Attorney General of Mississippi, played himself for the scenes involving the lawsuit.
- GoofsIn 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 other's languages, unless they studied them.
- Quotes
Mike Wallace: Who are these people?
Lowell Bergman: Ordinary people under extraordinary pressure, Mike. What the hell do you expect? Grace and consistency?
- Alternate versionsThe TV version is actually longer than the theatrical version and was extended over two nights. The edit was supervised by director Michael Mann.
- ConnectionsFeatured in At the Movies: The Best Films of 1999 (2000)
- SoundtracksTempest
Written by Lisa Gerrard, Madjid Khaladj and Pieter Bourke
Performed by Lisa Gerrard and Pieter Bourke
Courtesy of 4 AD Limited/Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Top review
A very good thriller
The Insider is a 1999 movie directed by Micheal Mann based on a segment of CBS TV Show "60 Minutes". The movie depicts the true events that happened in the background. It is a about an interview of a tobacco company whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand portrayed by Russell Crowe. Al Pacino stars as Lowell Bergman, the producer of the show. There is nothing flambuoyant, nothing extravagant, just true events although dramatized for the sake of a movie.
The movie is a fantastic, pure thriller. It will grip you to the seats till the end. The screenplay is really brilliant but the standout factor is the acting of the two titans, Russell Crowe and Al Pacino. I was amazed by their performances.
I am not going to elaborate on the storyline here. You just watch and enjoy.
The movie is a fantastic, pure thriller. It will grip you to the seats till the end. The screenplay is really brilliant but the standout factor is the acting of the two titans, Russell Crowe and Al Pacino. I was amazed by their performances.
I am not going to elaborate on the storyline here. You just watch and enjoy.
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- maheshmanutd
- Feb 5, 2012
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Languages
- Also known as
- 60 Minutes
- Filming locations
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $90,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $29,089,912
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $6,712,361
- Nov 7, 1999
- Gross worldwide
- $60,289,912
- Runtime2 hours 37 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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