1. The Insider - Jeffrey Wigand
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Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, who exposed corporate deceit and wrongdoing in spite of threats to his career and the personal lives of those around him.
2. The Insider - Plugged In
Based on a true story, The Insider chronicles the personal and professional trials of Jeffrey Wigand, a top scientist and tobacco industry insider.
Based on a true story, "The Insider" chronicles the trials of Jeffrey Wigand, a tobacco industry insider possessing knowledge that, if made public, would devastate "big tobacco."
3. The Insider movie review & film summary (1999) - Roger Ebert
In its broad strokes, “The Insider” is perfectly accurate: Big tobacco lied, one man had damning information, skilled journalism developed the story, intrigue ...
Michael Mann's "The Insider" makes a thriller and expose out of how big tobacco's long-running tissue of lies was finally exposed by investigative journalism.
4. The Insider | Rotten Tomatoes
Both are equally authentic and compelling through their depiction of the very real case(s) the film's based on, and via Mann and Eric Roth's strong screenplay ...
After seeking the expertise of former "Big Tobacco" executive Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe), seasoned TV producer Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino) suspects a story lies behind Wigand's reluctance to speak. As Bergman persuades Wigand to share his knowledge of industry secrets, the two must contend with the courts and the corporations that stand between them and exposing the truth. All the while, Wigand must struggle to maintain his family life amidst lawsuits and death threats.
5. Reel Science -- Recommendation (The Insider)
In this film, which is based on a true story, science and media converge and collide and then come together for the benefit of society. Russell Crowe plays ...
Established to encourage critical thinking about the way science is presented in film, Reel Science includes reviews of new theatrical releases evaluated with a scientific audience in mind and recommendations of older films that have been influential or controversial within the science fiction genre
6. 'The Insider,' Michael Mann's White-Collar Thrill Ride of ...
60 Minutes veteran Mike Wallace loathed Michael Mann's account of how the news magazine squashed one of its most explosive stories, about wrongdoing in the ...
By Tim Pelan Few filmmakers can take a whistle-blowing dramatization of real life potentially dusty legal shenanigans and news gathering and make it so chest convulsively taut the blood in your ears pounds, but then not many filmmakers are of the calibre of Michael Mann (an honorable mention to Tony Gilroy's fictional
7. Fact, Fiction and 'The Insider': A Key Figure Comments
Dec 11, 1999 · The movie fails to tell the real story of what sparked the new legal revolution against the tobacco industry and caused the companies to pay ...
In your piece about "The Insider" ("Smoke Lingers as 'The Insider' Does a Slow Burn," by Paul Lieberman and Myron Levin, Dec. 3), you report that the movie gives me credit for things I did not do.
8. The Insider | film by Mann [1999] - Britannica
appeared opposite Russell Crowe in The Insider; based on real-life events, it examines tobacco companies and their efforts to conceal the dangerous side effects ...
Other articles where The Insider is discussed: Russell Crowe: …tobacco-industry whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand in The Insider (1999). Two years later he took the academy’s best actor award for his role as Maximus, a Roman general-turned-gladiator in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator. His commanding performance, which blended scenes of yearning love with those of brutal physical violence, helped make the epic one…