This film tells the true story of Jeffrey Wigand, a former tobacco executive, who decided to appear on the CBS-TV News show “60 Minutes”. As matter of conscience partially prodded by producer Lowell Bergman, he revealed that, the tobacco industry was not only aware that cigarettes are addictive & harmful, but deliberately worked on increasing that addictiveness. Unfortunately, both protagonists of this story learn the hard way that simply telling the truth is not enough as they struggle against both Big Tobacco’s attempts to silence them and the CBS TV Network’s own cowardly complict preference of putting money as a higher priority over the truth.
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Genre: Drama | History | Thriller Director: Michael Mann Writers (WGA): Marie Brenner (article) Eric Roth (written by) Cast: Al Pacino … Lowell Bergman Russell Crowe … Jeffrey Wigand Christopher Plummer … Mike Wallace Diane Venora … Liane Wigand Philip Baker Hall … Don Hewitt Lindsay Crouse … Sharon Tiller Debi Mazar … Debbie De Luca Stephen Tobolowsky … Eric Kluster Colm Feore … Richard Scruggs Bruce McGill … Ron Motley Gina Gershon … Helen Caperelli Michael Gambon … Thomas Sandefur Rip Torn … John Scanlon Lynne Thigpen … Mrs. Williams Hallie Kate Eisenberg … Barbara Wigand Also Known As (AKA) Insider Austria / Germany / Japan / Sweden El informante Argentina / Mexico / Venezuela The Insider Denmark / Greece 60 Minutes USA (pre-release title) A bennfentes Hungary El dilema (The insider) Spain Ha-Makkor Israel (Hebrew title) Informator Poland Insider – Dietro la verità Italy Köstebek Turkey (Turkish title) L’initié Canada (French title) Man of the People USA (working title) O Informador Portugal O Informante Brazil Révélations France Scandal în industria tutunului Romania The Untitled Tobacco Project USA (working title) The insider – Sisäpiirissä Finland Untitled Michael Mann Film USA (working title) |





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