The Insider
This powerful, riveting true-life story centers on Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe), a scientist with a major tobacco company who reveals potentially damaging top-secret industry information to "60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino) and reporter Mike Wallace (Christopher Plummer), only to have his career and life threatened.
Year: 1999
Genre: Alice's 500 Greatest Films, True Stories, Nick's Favourites, Best of the 1990s, Biography
Country: USA
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Gina Gershon, Michael Gambon, Philip Baker Hall
Duration: 158 Minutes
Rating: M - Contains offensive language.
7.9/10
Location in store: Alice's 500 Greatest Films
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