File:The_insider_movie_poster_1999.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
Film · TMDB
7.5A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
Cast
- Al Pacino as Lowell Bergman
- Russell Crowe as Jeffrey Wigand
- Christopher Plummer as Mike Wallace
- Diane Venora as Liane Wigand
- Philip Baker Hall as Don Hewitt
- Lindsay Crouse as Sharon Tiller
Themes
- newspaper
- research
- politics
- spy
- journalism
- interview
- tobacco
- insider
- conspiracy theory
- reporter
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
Ratings
IMDb
7.8/10
191,269 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
96%
Metacritic
85/100
- Year
- 1999
- Runtime
- 157 min
- Genres
- Biography, Drama, History
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Nominated for 7 Oscars. 23 wins & 58 nominations total
via OMDb · IMDb
Key facts
- Directed by
- Michael Mann
- Written by
- Eric Roth Michael Mann
- Based on
- "The Man Who Knew Too Much", by Marie Brenner
- Produced by
- Michael Mann Pieter Jan Brugge
- Starring
- Al Pacino Russell Crowe Christopher Plummer Diane Venora Philip Baker Hall Lindsay Crouse Debi Mazar
- Cinematography
- Dante Spinotti
- Edited by
- William Goldenberg Paul Rubell David Rosenbloom
- Music by
- Lisa Gerrard Pieter Bourke
- Production companies
- Touchstone Pictures Spyglass Entertainment Forward Pass
- Distributed by
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
- Release date
- November 5, 1999 ( 1999-11-05 )
- Running time
- 157 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $68–90 million
- Box office
- $60.3 million
via Wikipedia infobox
~11 min read
Encyclopedic overview
The Insider is a 1999 American biographical thriller film directed by Michael Mann and written by Mann and Eric Roth, based on Marie Brenner's 1996 Vanity Fair article "The Man Who Knew Too Much". The film stars Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Bruce McGill, Diane Venora and Michael Gambon.
A fictionalized account of a true story, it centers on the controversial 60 Minutes segment about Jeffrey Wigand, a whistleblower in the tobacco industry, covering his and CBS producer Lowell Bergman's struggles as they defend his testimony against efforts to discredit and suppress it by CBS and Wigand's former employer.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Insider” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.