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
Stephen Tobolowsky , Debi Mazar , Gina Gershon , Rip Torn , Al Pacino , Lindsay Crouse , Russell Crowe , Philip Baker Hall , Bruce McGill , Michael Gambon , Colm Feore , Christopher Plummer , Diane Venora
English [Original]
English , Korean
Biography, Drama, Thriller
1999
2h37m
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?