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The Insider
Year: 1999
Director: Michael Mann
Cast: Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora, Philip Baker Hall, Lindsay Crouse, Debi Mazar, Stephen Tobolowsky, Colm Feore, Bruce McGill, Gina Gershon, Michael Gambon, Rip Torn, Lynne Thigpen, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Michael Paul Chan, Lind
Genres: Thriller, Drama
Runtime: 152 min.
IMDB: This film on IMDB
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Plot:
In Lebanon, Hezbollah militants escort producer Lowell Bergman (Pacino) to Hezbollah founder Sheikh Fadlallah, where Lowell convinces him to be interviewed by Mike Wallace (Plummer) for CBS show 60 Minutes. In Louisville, Kentucky, Jeffrey Wigand (Crowe) packs his belongings and leaves his Brown & Williamson office, returning home to his wife Liane (Venora) and two children, one of whom suffers from acute asthma. When Liane asks about the boxes in Wigand’s car, he reveals that he was fired from his job that morning.Returning home to Berkeley, California, Bergman receives an anonymous package containing documents relating to tobacco company Philip Morris, and approaches a friend at the FDA for the name of someone who can put the information in layman’s terms. Bergman is referred to Wigand, and calls him at his home only to be steadfastly rebuffed. Curious with Wigand’s refusal to even speak to him, Bergman eventually convinces him to meet at the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville. In the privacy of their hotel room, Wigand agrees to translate the tobacco documents, but stresses that he cannot talk about anything else because of his confidentiality agreement. After leaving with the documents, Wigand appears at a meeting with Brown & Williamson CEO Thomas Sandefur (Gambon), who orders him to sign an expanded confidentiality agreement, under threat of revoking his severance pay and medical coverage and initiating legal proceedings. Wigand, enraged at the threats and believing that Bergman notified Sandefur about their confidential meeting, calls and accuses Bergman of treachery.Bergman visits Wigand’s house the next day and maintains that he did not reveal anything to Brown & Williamson. Reassured, Wigand talks to Bergman about the seven CEOs of “Big Tobacco” perjuring themselves to the United States Congress about their awareness of nicotine’s addictiveness, and that the CEOs should fear Wigand. Bergman says Wigand has to decide for himself whether to blow the whistle on big tobacco. Bergman returns to CBS Headquarters in New York City, where he and Wallace discuss Wigand’s situation and the potential damage he could do to Big Tobacco. A lawyer at the meeting claims that Wigand’s confidentiality agreement, combined with Big Tobacco’s unlimited checkbook, would effectively silence Wigand under mountains of litigation and court costs. Bergman proposes that Wigand could be compelled to speak through a court of law which could give him some protection against Brown & Williamson should he do an interview for 60 Minutes.The Wigand family move into a newer, more affordable house, and Wigand begins teaching chemistry and Japanese at a Louisville high school. One night while asleep, he’s alerted by his daughter to sounds outside the house. Upon investigation, he discovers a fresh shoe print in his newly planted garden, and begins to become paranoid. The next night, Wigand and Bergman have dinner together, where Bergman asks Wigand about incidents from his past that Big Tobacco might use against him. Wigand reveals several incriminating incidents before declaring he can’t see how they would affect his testimony. Bergman assures him they will.Bergman contacts Richard Scruggs (Feore) and Ron Motley (McGill) who, with Mississippi’s attorney general Mike Moore, are suing Big Tobacco to reimburse the state for Medicaid funds used to treat people with smoking-related illnesses. The trio express an int
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Date: 2009-12-17 22:13:39 User: Buy Truy
Leave it to "Heat" director Michael Mann to make a seat-gripping near-thriller about something as inherently dull as corporate whistle-blowing.

"The Insider" is a freely fictionalized retelling of the events that really got the ball rolling in the current attack on the tobacco industry: When a medical researcher for cigarette maker Brown and Williamson spills his guts to "60 Minutes," it puts CBS into in an ethical tailspin as lawyers come knocking with a broken confidentiality agreement in one hand and a lawsuit in the other.

I know what you're thinking: Yawn!

But Mann's richly atmospheric style (remember the shoot-out finale of "Heat"?) and his every-syllable-counts script -- co-written with Eric Roth ("Forest Gump," "The Horse Whisperer") -- help stuff this nearly three-hour picture with such wall-to-wall tension that journalism feels as stimulating as espionage.

Establishing the volatile mood immediately, Mann opens the movie with an unrelated adrenaline-boost (ala a James Bond flick) that finds "60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino) in Lebanon negotiating to secure an interview with the leader of an underground Muslim movement. The tension in this sequence is a killer and sets the ambiance for the entire movie.

Upon his return to the States, Bergman gets a lead on a huge story that could blow the doors off of big tobacco: Definitive proof that cigarette manufacturers have been spiking their products with highly-concentrated nicotine to enhance addiction.

On a tip, Bergman contacts freshly-fired Brown and Williamson chemist Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe) to interpret the reams of scientific data, but with a little bit of finessing, the embittered Wigand agrees to expose all the smoking industry's dirty little secrets by violating the far-reachingconfidentiality agreement he was forced to sign after his termination and under duress.

Pacino is at the top of his game as the cunning and crafty, but principled, segment producer, whose promise of protection and candor is shattered when CBS's lawyers step in, putting the kibosh on this momentous exposé to avoid a potentially huge lawsuit that might imperil the pending sale of the network (Westinghouse bought the broadcaster in 1995).

Pacino's performance is densely layered with audacity, integrity and sympathy for Wigand, whose career and marriage are destroyed by stress and justified paranoia over the relentless smear campaign and intimidation from his former employer.

As Wigand, Russell Crowe ("Mystery, Alaska," "L.A. Confidential") may be bound for an Oscar nomination. He carries such incredible tension in his chronically fatigued features that it's impossible to watch him without tensing up yourself as his life crumbles and he turns to the bottle.

Christopher Plummer is almost as powerful in playing "60 Minutes" anchor Mike Wallace, who covers the Wigand story for the show. Mann charges Plummer with raking Wallace over the coals, portraying him as arrogant, tantrum-prone and capable of kowtowing to corporate interests when it suits him -- although in the long run Wallace comes off as a consummate, even heroic, journalist.

The second half of "The Insider" shows the consequences of these events on Wigand's shattered life and Bergman's conscience, delving deep into the character's psyches and lives as the debate rages about airing the Wigand interview on "60 Minutes." Even the peripheral characters -- wives, production assistants, lawyers -- are refreshingly three-dimensional as they intersect with these two out-on-a-limb men.

Mann makes no bones about crucifying the tobacco industry and questioning corporate, profit-driven journalism in this film. But he isn't just stepping up onto a celluloid soapbox -- this wily, engrossing film is not only the best movie about journalism since "All the President's Men," it's also one of the most visually dynamic movies of the year.

Although he's a strong character director with an ear for ponderous but authentic dialogue, Mann has always been best known for his visual flair and "The Insider" definitely delivers on that front, too. From a quick shot of a single raindrop on a car window to scenes gracefully tinted green, gold or midnight blue to the substantive but subtle Manhattan backdrops, he does an astounding job of illustrating his story with masterful, stylistic touches that give this film a distinctive vitality that is as enticing as its plot.

Many other directors could have made, perhaps, an over-long TV movie out of "The Insider," but it's Mann's arresting techniques that is the icing on the cake which makes this an all-around brilliant film.
 
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