The Insider

Balls-out 60 Minutes producer Lowell Bergman sniffs a story when a former research biologist for Brown & Williamson, Jeff Wigand, won't talk to him. When the company leans hard on Wigand to honor a confidentiality agreement, he gets his back up. Trusting Bergman and despite a crumbling marriage, he goes on camera for a Mike Wallace interview and risks arrest for contempt of court. Westinghouse is negotiating to buy CBS, so CBS attorneys advise CBS News to shelve the interview and avoid a lawsuit. 60 Minutes and CBS News bosses cave, Wigand is hung out to dry, Bergman is compromised, and the CEOs of Big Tobacco may get away with perjury. Will the truth come out? Written by The Insider is a 1999 American English-language Biography Drama motion picture featuring Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora, Philip Baker Hall, Lindsay Crouse and Robbie G. Tomlin. The movie is inspired from The Man Who Knew Too Much by Marie Brenner. The Insider was Produced by Michael Mann and Pieter Jan Brugge. The Insider is written by Eric Roth and Michael Mann and it is directed by Michael Mann. Buena Vista Pictures Distribution acquired the distribution rights for the film. The Insider was released on 16th March 2000 and takes a screen time of 158 minutes. and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released. The Insider was made on a budget of $90 million and at the box office it grossed only $60 million. Cinematography was done by Dante Spinotti and editing by William Goldenberg, Paul Rubell and David Rosenbloom. The music was composed by Lisa Gerrard along with Pieter Bourke.