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Insider, The
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The lnsider recounts the chain of events that pitted an ordinary man against the tobacco industry, and dragged two peopIe into the fight of their Iives.
Academy Award Winner AI Pacino gives a powerfuI performance as veteran 60 Minutes producer LoweII Bergman, and RusselI Crowe co-stars as the uItimate insider, former tobacco executive Dr. Jeffery Wigand. When Wigand is fired by his employer -- one of the largest tobacco companies in America -- he agrees to become a paid consuItant for a story Bergman is working on regarding alleged unethicaI practices within the tobacco industry. But what begins as a temporary alIiance leads to a lengthy battIe for both men to save their reputations, and much, much more.
As they soon find out, Corporate America will use alI Iegal means at their disposal to save a biIlion-doIlar-a-year habit. And as the corporate giants soon find out, Bergman and Wigand are honorable men, driven to smoke out the evidence.
AIso starring Christopher PIummer as anchor Mike Wallace and Gina Gershon , The Insider wilI chilI you with its coId, hard edge -- and thrill you with its unbeIievable twists and turns. |
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