The Insider 1999

7.9/10


IMDB Rating : 7.9


FD Smart Rating : 7.9


Synopsis : When a TV producer coaxes a researcher to speak about his former employer's knowledge of tobacco's dangers, the corporations try to silence them.


Regions Available ( 2 ) :
India , South Korea

Languages:

English [Original]

Subtitles:

English , Korean

Genres:

Biography, Drama, Thriller

Release Date:

1999

Run Time:

2h37m

Maturity Rating:

Recommended for ages 16 and up

Balls-out '60 Minutes' producer Lowell Bergman sniffs a story when a former research biologist for Brown & Williamson, Jeff Wigand, won't talk to him. When the company leans hard on Wigand to honor a confidentiality agreement, he gets his back up. Trusting Bergman and despite a crumbling marriage, he goes on camera for a Mike Wallace interview and risks arrest for contempt of court. Westinghouse is negotiating to buy CBS, so CBS attorneys advise CBS News to shelve the interview and avoid a lawsuit. '60 Minutes' and CBS News bosses cave, Wigand is hung out to dry, Bergman is compromised, and the CEOs of Big Tobacco may get away with perjury. Will the truth come out?