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Genres:
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Biography /
Drama /
Thriller
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Director:
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Michael Mann
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Actors:
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Lindsay Crouse,
Lynne Thigpen,
Hallie Kate Eisenberg,
Al Pacino,
Russell Crowe,
Christopher Plummer,
Diane Venora,
Philip Baker Hall,
Debi Mazar,
Stephen Tobolowsky,
Colm Feore,
Bruce McGill,
Gina Gershon,
Michael Gambon,
Rip Torn
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Duration:
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158 min.
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Rating:
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(8/10)119
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Plot Summary:
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This dusting tells the reliable legend of Jeffrey Wigand, a former tobacco manager, who decided to appear on the CBS-TV Announcement show "60 Minutes." As matter of conscience partially prodded through impresario Lowell Bergman, he revealed that, the tobacco industry was not only conscious that cigarettes are addictive & poisonous, but calculatingly worked on increasing that addictiveness. Unfortunately, both protagonists of this fairy tale learn the hard MO = 'modus operandi' that simply powerful the actually is not adequately as they struggle against both Important Tobacco's attempts to sil... ence them and the CBS TV Network's own timorous complict choice of putting money as a higher pre-eminence over the truth.
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Insider, The
Worthy but powerful exposé of the tobacco industry starring a plumped-up, pre-Gladiator Russell Crowe as a real-life whistle-blower and Al Pacino as the idealistic investigative journalist working on his story
As Michael Corleone in The Godfather Al Pacino made constantly smoking cigarettes look very cool. He here proves himself equally adept at portraying the stained butt end of the industry.
Based on a true story, The Insider tells of one man's brave stance against the all-powerful cartel that helped open the floodgates to the present multi-billion dollar damages payout. Crowe plays Jeffrey Wigand, a former chief scientist at Brown & Williamson Tobacco where proof of nicotine's addictive qualities was systematically suppressed, an...
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