Synopsis
Two men driven to tell the truth … whatever the cost.
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.
1999 Directed by Michael Mann
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.
Al Pacino Russell Crowe Christopher Plummer Diane Venora Philip Baker Hall Lindsay Crouse Debi Mazar Stephen Tobolowsky Colm Feore Bruce McGill Gina Gershon Michael Gambon Rip Torn Lynne Thigpen Hallie Kate Eisenberg Michael Paul Chan Linda Hart Robert Harper Nestor Serrano Pete Hamill Wings Hauser Cliff Curtis Renee Olstead Michael Moore Gary Sandy Willie C. Carpenter Paul Butler Jack Palladino Megan Odebash Show All…
Gregg Baxter Andy Nelson Doug Hemphill Gregory King Yann Delpuech Craig Heath Brian Risner David Abrahamsen
A bennfentes, Révélations, O Informante, Вътрешен човек, Sisäpiirissä, Probuđena savjest, El dilema, Ha-Makkor, Dietro la verità, Scandal în industria tutunului, Köstebek, 인사이더, インサイダー, 奪命煙幕, nsider: Muž, který věděl příliš mnoho, Insider
Ordinary people under extraordinary pressure, Mike. What the hell do you expect? Grace and consistency?
"maybe things have changed."
"what's changed?"
"you mean since this morning?"
"no, i mean since whenever."
corporate interests have never (and will never) not come at the expense of our own, and here mann richly dramatizes the crushing pressures, lasting damages and sheer difficulty inherent to resisting them. are we running out of heroes or are they being systematically broken down? is there even anything left for them to save?
"No, you fucked you. Don't invert stuff." When we realized we'd corporatized everything. Analog's last stand.
Thrilling, beautiful, moving, a modern masterpiece about the real heroes who made cigarettes even better and funner to smoke.
80
Michael Mann, along with master DP Dante Spinotti, is at the top of his game as an image-maker here. Blooming clouds, with the color being a sharp tint of blue, or a driving range peppered with spots of golf balls. It's also what he emphasizes in even the most traditional moments - like the scene where the camera lingers on a freighter in a river while Jeffery Wigand is contemplating his current situation. Even at over two and a half hours, this epic of corporate malaise and journalistic integrity (or lack thereof) is tightly-wound, and completely riveting. An all-star cast giving their best while Mann finds a poetic danger in once again pushing against the systems that confine us. Nowadays, this type of movie is made by a hack nobody and forgotten as soon as the Academy Awards ceremony is over, but this is quality work, front to back.
al pacino is my husband... I would do anything for him... my taurus king... the love of my life
“Mike Wallace: Who are these people?
Lowell Bergman: Ordinary people under extraordinary pressure, Mike. What the hell do you expect? Grace and consistency?”
When The Insider was released in 1999, I was fifteen years old, literally half my life ago. At the time I didn't really understand the many aspects of true film appreciation, but on a purely straightforward basis of embracing entertainment I had fallen in love with this work about thirty minutes into my first viewing. Those feelings continued to blossom until the very last frame. After about a decade since my last revisit of the film, I needed a reminder as to why I still held it in such high esteem. I vividly recalled certain sequences that felt important, but I couldn't quite put the pieces together as to why they still lingered in my mind. Tonight, with this viewing,…
is it a five star picture? i don’t know. it’s hard to say what i think is a 5 star picture anymore. but it’s certainly a 5 in my heart. rarely do you see this kind of nobility displayed in a film. so when you finally see it, it moves you greatly.
happy 82nd birthday to al pacino, my favorite actor of all time.