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  1. Nov 5, 1999 · Michael Mann's "The Insider" makes a thriller and expose out of how big tobacco's long-running tissue of lies was finally exposed by investigative journalism. At its center stands Lowell Bergman, a producer for "60 Minutes," the CBS News program where a former tobacco scientist named Jeffrey Wigand spilled the beans.

  2. Mar 26, 2019 Full Review David Ansen Newsweek Powerfully and elegantly, The Insider reveals a chilling reality: how hard it is to tell a simple truth when big business doesn't...

  3. The Insider is a 1999 American biographical drama film directed by Michael Mann, from a screenplay adapted by Eric Roth and Mann based on Marie Brenner's 1996 Vanity Fair article "The Man Who Knew Too Much".

  4. But "The Insider" is a movie about shadows, not absolutes. And it would have reached deeper if its Bergman weren't so self-righteous a hero. "The Insider," as written by Eric Roth...

  5. Mar 27, 2019 · The Insider is an issue movie, and a journalism movie, and one scene of an absolutely gangbusters courtroom drama, but really, it’s a Michael Mann movie, which means it’s a heist movie.

  6. Nov 5, 1999 · An absorbing film-drama. From scene one, this film delivers a long slow burn as the tale of power and corruption unfolds. There is little action, but the film is steeped in an atmosphere of tension and high drama.

  7. The Insider is a 1999 movie directed by Micheal Mann based on a segment of CBS TV Show "60 Minutes". The movie depicts the true events that happened in the background. It is a about an interview of a tobacco company whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand portrayed by Russell Crowe. Al Pacino stars as Lowell Bergman, the producer of the show.