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	The Insider (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Insider is a 1999 film which tells the true story of a 60 Minutes television series exposé of the tobacco industry, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand.
		The story was initially not aired because 60 Minutes' parent company, Westinghouse, objected.
		Jeffrey Wigand, the anti-smoking subject of this movie, requested a ban on cigarettes in the film.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Insider_(film) (282 words)

	'The Insider': Mournful Echoes of a Whistle-Blower
		In the film Bergman keeps a portrait of Cesar Chavez on display, mentions that Herbert Marcuse was his mentor ("major influence on the New Left in the 1960s") and otherwise calls attention to his political credentials.
		Rating: "The Insider" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian).
		This film is rated R. Cast: Al Pacino (Lowell Bergman), Russell Crowe (Jeffrey Wigand), Christopher Plummer (Mike Wallace), Michael Gambon (Thomas Sandefur), Diane Venora (Liane Wigand), Bruce McGill (Ron Motley), Philip Baker Hall (Don Hewitt), Lindsay Crouse (Sharon Tiller) and Gina Gershon (Helen Caperelli).
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/110599insider-film-review.html (1075 words)

	The Insider
		The Insider, based on Marie Brenner's Vanity Fair article "The Man Who Knew Too Much," fictionalizes the efforts of CBS producer Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino, Any Given Sunday, The Devil's Advocate) to get and air an interview with whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe, L.A. Confidential, Mystery, Alaska).
		There is very little physical action in the film, but lots of emotional and psychological drama, in a movie that, under different hands, would be considered overly long.
		The Insider is a character driven charged drama that should surface again at Oscar time.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/insider.html (545 words)

	Political Film Society - The Insider
		Publicity about The Insider stresses the courage of a whistleblowing research scientist, formerly employed by a tobacco company, who in 1995 exposed the fact that cigarettes have been altered in recent decades to enhance their addictivity.
		We see testimony before Congress by the "seven dwarfs," the CEOs of the major tobacco companies, as they opine that cigarettes are not addictive, contrary to evidence reported by their own scientists, yet their perjury has not brought about prison terms for any of them.
		The Insider, which bears the tagline "Warning: Exposing the Truth May be Hazardous," has been nominated by the Political Film Society for two 1999 awards -- as the best film exposé and the best film raising consciousness of the need for greater democracy.
	www.geocities.com /~polfilms/insider.html (353 words)

	CNSforum \| The Insider - a film about truth and disillusionment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		What the "insider" of the film's title revealed was that the tobacco industry had manipulated the content of cigarettes to increase their addictive effect, and that industry chiefs had lied about this in congressional hearings.
		The film's second protagonist, Jeffrey Wigand (likewise magnificently played by Russell Crowe), is introduced to the audience as he leaves his office at a big tobacco company after being dismissed (on the grounds of "poor communication skills").
		On two occasions in the film he is satisfied—in both cases, when he has let his morals determine his actions in situations involving difficult choices.
	www.cnsforum.com /magazine/filmforum/theinsider (2218 words)

	The Insider - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Insider, a 1999 film about the exposé of the tobacco industry by a television series.
		The Insider, a book about an executive at Archer Daniels Midland.
		The Insider, a book about the British newspaper industry by Piers Morgan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Insider (112 words)

	The Insider with Al Pacino and Russell Crowe
		The film is about the former tobacco industry executive Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe) who, pushed by the 60 Minutes producer Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino) decides, to stand up against the multinational tobacco corporations and tell the truth about the addiction nicotine creates.
		In this film, he is light years away of his gladiator image.
		In the film, Russell Crowe is a caring husband and father, who helps his daughter who suffers from asthma attacks.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo10/insider.htm (1061 words)

	Film Review: The Insider
		With his use of handheld camera, often from the back, or side of the head, and precision slow motion, every scene is implanted with tension.
		In the old days, when Hollywood was fl-and-white, it would have been the story of a brave man against a wicked corporation, aided and abetted by Kirk Douglas, with a press pass stuck in the brim of his fedora.
		The Insider is the most intelligent movie on media morality since The Sweet Smell Of Success.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/i/insider_1999.shtml (506 words)

	Film: The Insider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Based on actual events, the film gives us a rare behind-the-scenes look at how the most highly rated news program in America dropped the ball on one of its most publicized stories.
		The Insider tells the story of Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino), an ex-'60s radical now working as a 60 Minutes segment producer.
		The Insider raises tough questions about the limits and possibility of a "free press" under the present system of corporately owned media.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/1999/110499/film3.html (381 words)

	The Insider/In Print: Maximum Russell Crowe
		The film depicts Bergmans efforts to get the segment aired and protect his source and with all the power never-before-beaten Big Tobacco had to throw at the former, confidentiality-agreement-breaking employee, Wigand was in a horrendously vulnerable position while processing his own feelings of betrayal.
		When making a film based on an actual incident, it is necessary to find the dramatic thread that holds the story together, that allows it to be not merely a recitation of facts but a living drama with characters who are fully rounded and who speak to that drama.
		In the finished film, as in the early drafts, he is portrayed as reluctantly going along with the decision of CBS lawyers and then changing course and fighting to have it shown.
	www.maximumcrowe.net /maxcrowe_insiderpress.html (13064 words)

	Review: The Insider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The first half of the film centers on Wigand - his struggles with his conscience, his conflict with his former employers, his difficulty convincing his wife to understand and accept the sacrifices she was being forced to make, and his decision to damn the consequences and go forward.
		During the film's first 80 minutes, when Wigand is in nearly every scene, Mann fashions a connection between the character and the audience.
		To be sure, the film tackles some big issues, but Mann never permits any of these "shock" revelations (which really aren't all that shocking) to eclipse the fact that the characters, not the concepts, hold our interest; everything else is of secondary importance.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/i/insider.html (1140 words)

	Salon Arts & Entertainment \| "The Insider" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Among news junkies and media insiders, "The Insider" has sparked furious gossip over its portrayal of the inner workings of CBS News and "60 Minutes," especially the relationship between host Mike Wallace (played here by Christopher Plummer) and his longtime producer Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino).
		Although Bergman, who acted as a consultant on the film, is depicted as a martyr for the cause of journalistic integrity and Wallace is shown caving in to corporate suits at a key moment, the presentation of their characters and the conflict between them is anything but simplistic.
		On the most obvious level, these scenes express the character's extreme isolation; he has thrown away his livelihood and lost his marriage, has been bombarded with legal gag orders and anonymous death threats and may be abandoned by the network that coaxed him to talk in the first place.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/1999/11/05/insider (684 words)

	CNN - 'The Insider' goes public - November 4, 1999
		In the film's "60 Minutes" plot thread, CBS News is characterized as being less concerned with breaking a public health news story than with the threat of litigation by the tobacco company.
		The film's scene submits that "60 Minutes" was advised by CBS that the show might be accused of such interference, of encouraging Wigand to violate his agreement.
		But what may embarrass CBS anew with this film's release is the screenplay's implication that if the network had been the target of a tobacco lawsuit at the time, the litigation might have influenced the impending sale of CBS, eventually to Westinghouse.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9911/05/insider.culpepper (2121 words)

	The Insider review
		Without considering the perfume of scandal surrounding its true story plot, the film is a well-crafted and intense thriller.
		The film looks pretty fair considering the events that really happened, and even if of course, it probably adds a Hollywood touch, it delivers a punch to the mafia of the the tobacco industry, a punch that the show 60 Minutes couldn't deliver.
		The Insider may be fairly classic and straightforward but it delivers a rush that's not nicotine.
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/theinsider.html (419 words)

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		Reflective of the film's exploration into the world of moral and ethical dilemmas, Spinotti shoots much of the film in rich greys and blues, exercising his talent for portraying the subtle and ambiguous.
		A pitch for the premise of The Insider would be about as dry as two-week old tobacco leaves: a 160 minute, fact-based movie about the backroom dealings and corporate maneuvering behind a stalled 60 Minutes segment dealing with a whistle-blower from one of the nation's largest tobacco companies.
		The Insider is certainly not a perfect movie; Bergman comes across more as a paragon of journalistic virtue than a tortured individual with much at stake, and even people who appreciate epics should wonder if Mann needed all 160 minutes for the story.
	www.goshen.edu /recordarchive/1999-2000/11-18/stories/insider.html (556 words)

	Orlando Weekly - Film Review - The Insider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As "The Insider" opens, a blindfolded Al Pacino is led past armed guards and into the presence of a fearsome Hezbollah potentate.
		For "The Insider" is not about Middle Eastern flare-ups, but the brouhaha that ensued when the newsmagazine censored a tobacco-industry exposéé to appease the jittery CBS legal department.
		You want to admire a film that tackles the heady issues raised by "The Insider." The true story's heroes and culprits have remained undisguised on their way to the screen; like its protagonists, this picture names names.
	www.orlandoweekly.com /film/review.asp?rid=4999 (521 words)

	The Insider
		First is the destruction of Wigand’s life as he knew it as he goes from highly paid corporate researcher with a wife (Diane Venora, True Crime) and two kids, to a high school chemistry teacher living alone in a hotel room.
		The Insider is based on an article by Marie Brenner, that was then translated to the big screen by Eric Roth.
		Normally you wouldn’t mention this about a film, but the shots are so good and they represent the story perfectly, so you have to recognize the outstanding job that Dante Spinotti did with this film.
	www.about-movies.com /movies/1999/theinsider.htm (501 words)

	Salon Arts & Entertainment \| All the corporations' men (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I've been a Mann fan since his TV film "The Jericho Mile" in 1979, and I think "The Insider" is Mann at his peak.
		In "The Insider," Mann's two lead characters -- Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe), the fired head of research and development for the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, and Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino), the segment producer who nudges Wigand into telling all for "60 Minutes" -- are knights in dented armor.
		This film is not about "you all ought not to smoke" or "you all ought to smoke." That's an individual choice.
	www.salon.com /ent/col/srag/1999/11/04/mann (1923 words)

	The Insider (1999): Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer - PopMatters Film Review
		Marcuse's subterranean presence in the film (he is reverently invoked by Bergman in an early scene) is significant here because his thesis of repressive tolerance taught, in part, that bourgeois society grants freedom of speech precisely at the moment it can no longer make a difference.
		The film makes a point of reminding viewers that before Wigand's deposition, the "Seven Dwarves," as seven corporate heads of major tobacco companies were known, swore before congress that they did not believe nicotine was an addictive narcotic.
		Although this is an extremely important moment in the film, it is also clear that its excess of feeling exceeds the exigencies of the fight: if the film remained in this mode or Wigand remained in this psychological state the story could not be told and there would be no story to tell.
	www.popmatters.com /film/insider.html (1259 words)

	The Insider Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		But Mann's film isn't about the dangers of smoking; it's about the dangers of giant companies sharing a bed with the media — this Insider blows the whistle on the eroding line between what is "news" and corporate interest.
		Now that this important film is on DVD, viewers will have a new opportunity to immerse themselves in the complexities and twists that resulted in one of the most provocative dramas to come out of a major Hollywood studio in years.
		If Touchstone had included these materials for the entire film instead of one particular scene, the result would have greatly enhanced the overall package; as it is, this feature is more of a tease than a notable addition to the disc.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=128130 (1540 words)

	The Insider
		It is their roles, their parts, which give the film the emotion and character that it has.
		It has a note at the end, something along the “Certain events in the film have been dramatized for effect.” I feel compelled to mention this because “The Insider” was able to work outside the lines; it’s an extraordinarily truthful view from both sides of the coin.
		The only problem I found in the film – the length, at 2 hours and 35 minutes – is easily overlooked given the quality of it.
	www.fortunecity.com /skyscraper/skyliner/83/reviews/Insider/insider.htm (834 words)

	Film Review: The Insider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We're treated to terrific performances, notably by Pacino, who could talk anyone into anything, and Crowe, whose growing paranoia is entirely believable when the Big Tobacco heavies come after him.
		The story's accuracy may be dubious - it's been challenged by Brown & Williamson and Wallace - but the insider's view is unmatched.
		Films out now:Friends With Money, X-Men: The Last Stand, Down In The Valley, The Wild, Curious George
	www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/i/insider_r2_1999.shtml (433 words)

	The Insider (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		To the hints as to why we didn't hear anything about the drama when it happened, because the OJ murder story and media frenzy drowned out what should be to us all a much more serious matter.
		For me the crowning moment in the film was when Russell Crowe (as Wigand) was about to dig into a hamburger when behind him on TV a newscaster reported findings about him, bad (though unfounded) findings.
		Crowe put his knife and fork back down in a way that told us all that he had no more appetite, in fact all the will left in him had been violently thrust away, thrust away by the selfish interests of the Tobacco companies.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0140352 (726 words)

	The Edge Film, DVD, video: The Insider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One senses that Mann fastened on Wigand's story (apart from a little dramatic telescoping, this is all essentially true) not because he had a particular axe to grind against Big Tabacco (he's a smoker himself), but because it provides the perfect backdrop to talk about honesty and loyalty and honour.
		This is a film whose paranoid aura is as much about texture and grain as the big picture.
		The Insider, like Heat, is a violent film, except that it internalises its aggression; battles are fought with words.
	www.theedge.abelgratis.co.uk /filmsgl/insider.htm (545 words)

	SoundtrackNet : The Insider Soundtrack
		At one moment in the film, where Wigand needs to make a decision, which if he goes ahead with it, could land him in jail, Mann chose to use "Iguazu" by guitarist Gustavo Santaolalla.
		While these cues fit rather seamlessly into the film, they stick out a bit on the CD - because they are put separate after the Gerrard and Bourke cues, and don't carry the same themes.
		Once you've seen the film, you'll realize that the music played a very large role, and I would hope that you add this album to your CD collection.
	www.soundtrack.net /soundtracks/database?id=2264 (394 words)

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