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A fictionalized account of a true story, it centers on the controversial 60 Minutes segment about Jeffrey Wigand, a whistleblower in the tobacco industry, covering his and CBS producer Lowell Bergman's struggles as they defend his testimony against efforts to discredit and suppress it by CBS and Wigand's former employer.
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.
The Insider is a movie based on a true story about a big lawsuit against the tobacco industry. The story follows CBS producer Lowell Bergman, who is in charge of interviewing those involved in the lawsuit for a segment called 60 Minutes. Bergman eventually approaches Jeffrey Wigand, who was formerly an executive for a tobacco company, in order ...
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In Louisville, Kentucky, Jeffrey Wigand (Crowe) packs his belongings and leaves his Brown and Williamson office, returning home to his wife Liane (Venora) and two children, one of whom suffers from acute asthma.
Nov 5, 1999 · Wigand is a real pill, cold and uncommunicative with his wife, inclined to temperamental outbursts and appearing to be as motivated by vengeance as moral duty. Advertisement. Crowe, the...
Oct 30, 2019 · Jeffrey Wigand has put himself in a state of contradiction in relation to how he should be perceived in his own mind.” You can sense traces of this in the film’s opening counterpoint.
Scout Tafoya July 16, 2014. Tweet. The Insider. When Marie Brenner published her article "The Man Who Knew Too Much", in Vanity Fair in 1996, she had the American public’s full attention. Here was an insight into the mind of Jeffrey Wigand, the man whose life had become public property over the course of a few years. Why?
