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- BFI identifier507225
- Date1999 (Copyright)
- Production countryUSA
- Production company
- SynopsisDrama. In a story based on true events, Jeffrey Wigand, a scientific researcher at a large US tobacco corporation, comes into contact with Lowell Bergman, producer of a hardhitting widely syndicated news programme. Bergman has some documents relating to the tobacco industry which he wishes to have explained; at first Wigand demurs, since he has signed confidentiality agreements enabling him to keep his job and the accompanying benefits. As time goes on however, it becomes clear to Bergman that Wigand could be a major `whistleblower', capable of blowing the lid off the tobacco industry and the heads of those corporations who have insisted before Congressional committees that smoking poses no health risk. (Synopsis) Based on a true story, about a scientific researcher at a large US tobacco corporation, who appears on the CBS-TV News show `60 minutes' and reveals that the industry was not only aware that cigarettes are addictive and harmful to health, but it deliberately worked on increasing their addictiveness. (Synopsis)
- Genre
- CreditsDirector: Michael Mann
©/Presented by: Touchstone Pictures
Production Company: Forward Pass Productions
view all - CastAl Pacino (Lowell Bergman)
Russell Crowe (Jeffrey Wigand)
Christopher Plummer (Mike Wallace)
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Title
The Insider (Original)
The Faculty (Working)
Category
Fiction- Collections
- Scripts / Documents
- Posters / Designs
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- ArticlesSight and Sound v10 n11 November 2000 - Video ReviewFilm Review n592 April 2000 - ReviewStarBurst n248 April 1999 - ArticlePremiere v13 n3 November 1999 - ReviewPremiere v13 n4 December 1999 - Article, Prod. Reportview all
- Books
- Digital documentsBFI Southbank programme notes March 2014
available to view in BFI Reuben Library
- The Insider
Work - 507225 - 1999 (Copyright)
USA - Film - Fiction
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