The Insider

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.

Cast

Al Pacino

as Lowell Bergman

Russell Crowe

as Jeffrey Wigand

Christopher Plummer

as Mike Wallace

Diane Venora

as Liane Wigand

Philip Baker Hall

as Don Hewitt

Lindsay Crouse

as Sharon Tiller

Debi Mazar

as Debbie De Luca

Stephen Tobolowsky

as Eric Kluster

Colm Feore

as Richard Scruggs

Bruce McGill

as Ron Motley

Reviews

Eky

What if Michael Mann, Russell Crowe and Al Pacino ensemble in a film all together? Well, The Insider, with the above clever formula does exist and it is definitely an earthly paradise. Russell Crowe is a tobacco industry researcher named Jeffrey Wigand who accidentally revealed a addictive substance...

GenerationofSwine

I was drooling when I saw the first preview. the talent involved in this...aaaaahhhhhhh. You just know it's going to be good. And Crowe, who thinks he's the best actor who ever lived actually acted in this. Seeing him actually act is worth it. Many of us believed it was only a legend, but here...

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