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The Insider

1999 film directed by Michael Mann

Film · TMDB

7.5

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.

Released: 1999-10-28158 minDir: Michael MannDrama, Thriller

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

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Ratings · OMDb

IMDb

7.8/10

191,269 votes

Rotten Tomatoes

96%

Metacritic

85/100

Rated: R
Awards: Nominated for 7 Oscars. 23 wins & 58 nominations total

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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

Key dates

Published: 27 April 2000

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: film
Award: National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
Genre: drama film
Country of origin: United States
Original language: Persian
Director: Michael Mann
Screenwriter: Marie Brenner
Cast member: Robert Harper
Composer: Lisa Gerrard
Producer: Michael Mann

Article

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.