The Insider

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Based on the Vanity fair article: The man who knew too much / by Marie Brenner.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1999.
Special features: theatrical trailer, production featurette with audio commentary with Al Pacino and Russell Crowe, "inside a scene," which contains notes to actors, the script, and the actual scene.
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.
When former executive Jeffrey Wigand is fired by his employer, one of the largest tobacco companies in America, Wigand agrees to become a paid consultant for a story by veteran 60 minutes producer Lowell Bergman, regarding alleged unethical practices within the tobacco industry. But what begins as a temporary alliance leads to a lengthy battle for both men to save their reputations and more.
DVD, Dolby digital 5.1 surround stereo., NTSC, widescreen 2.35:1 aspect ratio enhanced for 16x9 televisions.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

informative submitted by Jackie77 on August 29, 2015, 5:47pm Very onteresting movie based on whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand. He told the world about cigarette companies adding chemicals to make people become more addicted to cigarettes. Great acting. Intense and shocking.

Good movie but watching it was torture because of the GOD AWFUL so-called "MUSICAL SCORE" submitted by Tassos on March 15, 2021, 9:50pm I had a terrible time watching this movie, primarily because of its GOD AWFUL musical score, which is really putting it leniently. THis is NOT music, it is TORTURE. It is not just the damned violins and pianos in the background, there were all kinds of other cacophonous instruments, guitars, banjos (or they seemed like it), frigging accordions and who knows what else was thrown at our ears. On top of that, we have to endure and the freaking INARTICULATE VOCALIZATIONS, a real torture for any lover of good music.

The movie could have been a 100% accurate documentary, but the freaking director wanted to make a SOAP OPERA out of VERY SERIOUS STUFF, and messed with the events, admitting they did it to increase the 'dramatization' effect.

TOwards the end of the movie (28th scene) I could not take the damned music any longer, put it on MUTE, and turned on the SUBTITLES. I wish I had done it earlier.