The Insider
"Two men driven to tell the truth … whatever the cost."
DramaThriller
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
🎬 DirectorMichael Mann
📅 Release1999-10-28
🌍 CountryUnited States of America
🗣 LanguageArabic, English, Japanese, Persian
🏢 StudioTouchstone Pictures, Mann/Roth Productions, Forward Pass
🗳 Votes2,146
🔥 Popularity8
💰 Budget$90,000,000
💵 Revenue$60,300,000
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🎭 Cast
Al Pacino
Lowell Bergman
Russell Crowe
Jeffrey Wigand
Christopher Plummer
Mike Wallace
Diane Venora
Liane Wigand
Philip Baker Hall
Don Hewitt
Lindsay Crouse
Sharon Tiller
Debi Mazar
Debbie De Luca
Stephen Tobolowsky
Eric Kluster
Colm Feore
Richard Scruggs
Bruce McGill
Ron Motley
Gina Gershon
Helen Caperelli
Michael Gambon
Thomas Sandefur
Rip Torn
John Scanlon
Lynne Thigpen
Mrs. Williams
Hallie Eisenberg
Barbara Wigand
🎥 Crew
Producer
Pieter Jan Brugge
Producer
Michael Mann
Director
Michael Mann
Director of Photography
Dante Spinotti
Editor
William Goldenberg
Original Music Composer
Lisa Gerrard
Original Music Composer
Pieter Bourke
Editor
David Rosenbloom
Editor
Paul Rubell
Makeup Artist
Esther Ben-Noon
🖼 Gallery
🏷 Keywords
newspaperresearchpoliticsspyjournalisminterviewtobaccoinsiderconspiracy theoryreporterwhistleblowertobacco industry
💬 Reviews
What if Michael Mann, Russell Crowe and Al Pacino ensemble in a film all together? Well, The Insider, with the above clever formula does exist and it is definitely an earthly paradise. Russell Crowe is a tobacco industry researcher named Jeffrey Wigand who accidentally revealed a addictive substance abuse in a famous tobacco company named Big Tobacco. He appeared in a CBS program “60 Minutes” …
I was drooling when I saw the first preview. the talent involved in this...aaaaahhhhhhh. You just know it's going to be good. And Crowe, who thinks he's the best actor who ever lived actually acted in this. Seeing him actually act is worth it. Many of us believed it was only a legend, but here it is, proof he does have talent somewhere beneath the brass. Pacino, Mann, Plummer, Gabon and y…
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