The Insider

4.00
    The Insider
    1999

    Synopsis

    A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.

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    Cast

    • Al PacinoLowell Bergman
    • Russell CroweJeffrey Wigand
    • Christopher PlummerMike Wallace
    • Diane VenoraLiane Wigand
    • Philip Baker HallDon Hewitt
    • Lindsay CrouseSharon Tiller
    • Debi MazarDebbie De Luca
    • Stephen TobolowskyEric Kluster
    • Colm FeoreRichard Scruggs
    • Bruce McGillRon Motley

    Recommendations

    • 100

      New York Daily News

      May be the best movie of the year.
    • 90

      Los Angeles Times

      A dead-on tale of corporate power, courage, cowardice and how we live.
    • 90

      The New York Times

      Is still sleek, gripping entertainment with a raw-nerved, changeable camera style that helps to amplify its meaning.
    • 88

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Power to absorb, entertain and anger.
    • 88

      USA Today

      At its best, hard-hitting grown-up cinema (rare these days) and a movie blessed with a villain (Big Tobacco) for which all gloves can be removed and heaved into the next county.
    • 88

      Chicago Tribune

      This is a first-class muckraking melodrama: an admirable picture.
    • 83

      Portland Oregonian

      Earnest, smart, handsome, well-acted and made with mastery.
    • 75

      San Francisco Examiner

      A meticulously assembled dramatization of a grossly controversial moment in TV history.

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