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The Insider - Production Information (from the official Press Kit) Jeffrey Wigand (RUSSELL CROWE) was a central witness in the lawsuits filed by Mississippi and 49 other states against the tobacco industry which were eventually settled for $246 billion.
Mar 11, 2015 · Tobacco whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand goes on the record about ‘The Insider’. March 10, 2015 Bryan Renbaum. Baltimore Post-Examiner interviewed Jeffrey S. Wigand P.h. D., former Vice President ...
THE INSIDER recounts the chain of events that pitted an ordinary man against the tobacco industry and dragged two people into the fight of their lives. Academy Award-winner Al Pacino gives a powerful performance as producer Lowell Bergman and Academy Award Winner Russell Crowe co-stars as the ultimate insider, former tobacco executive Dr. Jeffrey Wigand. When Wigand is fired by his employer ...
ate in "The Insider" the tobacco industry whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand sits despondently in a hotel room and contemplates the steep price of what he has done. The setting is somber except for the bright pastoral mural on the wall behind him, looking like a window onto an unsullied, unattainable world. Then the image begins to roil and morph ...
The Insider movie synopsis: 60 Minutes producer Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino) and whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe) heroically defend the veracity of the latter’s allegations against the tobacco industry in the face of efforts by CBS and Wigand’s former employer, tobacco giant Brown & Williamson, to discredit him and suppress his ...
Apr 11, 2000 · The Insider is two movies--a cover-up thriller and a drama about journalistic ethics--that combine to embrace the noble values personified by Wigand and Bergman. Even if the details aren't always precise (as Mike Wallace and others protested prior to the film's release), the film adheres to a higher truth that was so blatantly violated by ...
Nov 5, 1999 · But ''The Insider'' is a movie about shadows, not absolutes. ... Russell Crowe (Jeffrey Wigand), Christopher Plummer (Mike Wallace), Michael Gambon (Thomas Sandefur), Diane Venora (Liane Wigand ...
