Insider

Release Date: 2000-11-07, Rating R (Restricted),

Based on the true story that stunned the nation when whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand jeopardized everything he had to reveal the shocking practices of the tobacco industry

Release Date: 2000-04-11, Rating R (Restricted),

DVDs. Insider

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Based on the article "The Man Who Knew Too Much" THE INSIDER depicts the true story of Jeffrey Wigand Russell Crowe a successful scientist who is fired from the Brown Williamson tobacco company for objecting to certain lab tests. He signs a confidentiality agreement to ease the company's nervousness but when hotshot 60 MINUTES producer Lowell Bergman Al Pacino recruits Wigand to help him decipher some technical documents he realizes that there's a bigger story hiding inside Wigand. Eventually Bergman convinces him to break the agreement and sit for an interview with Mike Wallace Christopher Plummer. The resulting media frenzy causes Wigand to lose the support of his family and forces Bergman to confront the harsh reality of his business. Additionally Wigand is recruited by the state of Mississippi to testify on its behalf that cigarettes are in fact addictive. To pay the rent he begins teaching high school chemistry waiting for Bergman to convince the network to air the piece. Buckling under corporate pressu

Psychological Drama DVD - The Insider tells the true story of a man who decided to tell the world what the seven major tobacco companies knew (and concealed) about the dangers of their product. Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe) was a scientist employed in research for a tobacco firm, Brown and Williamson. Not long after he was fired by Brown and Williamson, Wigand came into contact with Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino), a producer for 60 Minutes who worked closely with journalist Mike Wallace (played here by Christopher Plummer). Bergman arranged for Wigand to be interviewed by Wallace for a 60 Minutes expose on the cigarette industry, though Wigand was still bound by a confidentiality agreement not to discuss his employment with the company. Despite Wigand's willingness to talk, CBS pulled his interview from at the last minute after Brown and Williamson threatened a multi-billion dollar lawsuit. The staff of 60 Minutes and CBS News were soon embroiled in an internal struggle over the killing of the story, and Wigand

Release Date: 2002-04-02, Rating R (Restricted),