Insider - Dietro la verità

Titolo originale: The Insider
Regia: Michael Mann |
Anno: 1999
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma Thriller
Tag: newspaper | research | politics | spy | journalism | interview | tobacco | insider | conspiracy theory | reporter | whistleblower | tobacco industry | legal drama | legal thriller | intimate | suspenseful |
Cast: Al Pacino | Russell Crowe | Christopher Plummer | Diane Venora | Philip Baker Hall | Lindsay Crouse | Debi Mazar | Stephen Tobolowsky | Colm Feore | Bruce McGill | Gina Gershon | Michael Gambon | Rip Torn | Lynne Thigpen | Hallie Eisenberg | Michael Paul Chan | Linda Hart | Robert Harper | Nestor Serrano | Pete Hamill | Wings Hauser | Cliff Curtis | Renee Olstead | Michael Moore | Gary Sandy | Willie C. Carpenter | Paul Butler | Jack Palladino | Megan Odebash | Roger Bart | Alan Desatti | Sayed Badreya | Chris Ufland | Douglas McGrath | Bill Sage | Joseph Hindy | Dennis Garber | Tim Grimm | Paul Perri | Wanda De Jesus | Robert Patrick Brink | Vincent Foster | James Harper | Eyal Podell | Breckin Meyer | David Roberson | Gregg E. Muravchick | William P. Bradford | David Clyde Carr | Ann Reskin | Claire Slemmer | Steve Salge | Derrick Jones | Donald F. Burbrink | Vyto Ruginis | George R. Parsons | Isodine Loury | Charlene Bosarge | Saemi Nakamura | Ronal G. Yokley | Bob Lazarus | Robert J. Ragno Jr. | Alvin L. Welch | Nathan Lewis Hill | Paula Bisbikos | Christi Evans | Knox White | Amy L. Caudill | Cara Briese | Phil Hawn | Spencer Kayden | Zane Lamprey | Don Langley | Clyde Lee | Robert D. Parham | Roger Phenix | Scott Ritcher | Brian Canberg | J.B. Flinn | Tom Jones | Ted Speaker | Robbie G. Tomlin | Susan Wagner |

Un ex dirigente della Brown & Williamson decide di rilasciare un'intervista nella quale svela i retroscena che stanno dietro alla produzione ed alla manipolazione chimica del tabacco. L'uomo diventa il testimone principale di un importante processo contro le multinazionali del tabacco. La sua vita viene distrutta e, solo un giornalista gli resterà accanto per aiutarlo a svelare i suoi segreti.

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Jeffrey Wigand was fired in March 1993. In the movie he is driving an Audi A4. Audi didn't have a m [...] D
The film concludes with the statement that Jeffery Wigand's harassers were never found. In fact the [...] D
In the beginning of the film when Mike Wallace refuses to move his chair away from the Sheik, the t [...] D
Lowell Bergman didn't quit CBS until 1998, not the morning after the 1996 Jeffrey Wigand interview [...] D
When Wigand is returning from Mississippi, his car is shown passing a highway sign saying "Louisvil [...] D
When he first calls Jeffrey Wigand, Lowell Bergman leaves a message asking Wigand to call him at 51 [...] D
When Richard Scruggs is shown flying his Learjet, he gives the plane's tail number as "November six [...] D
On one occasion when Bergman receives a phone call from Jeffrey Wigand, a crewmember's face is refl [...] D
When Lowell asks his assistant to get Dr. Wigand on the phone, the next cut shows Dr. Wigand on a p [...] D
Wigand mentions that Bergman went to UC La Jolla, when he should have said UC San Diego. While the [...] D
Wigand stands in the hallway at his school in Kentucky as he talks on a pay phone to Scruggs, who i [...] D
Bergman finds Wigand's residential fax number after leafing through the yellow pages, which lists o [...] D
When Lowell Bergman has an argument with Jeffrey Wigand outside his house in the rain, the amount o [...] D
When Bergman talks to Wigand on the phone outside his beach house, he goes into the sea far enough [...] D
The driver's window changes from open to closed to open again when Wigand tells his wife he's been [...] D
When Bergman goes to Wigand's house for the first time, he covers his head from the rain with a new [...] D
The CBS building in New York is at 51 West 52nd Street (corner of 6th Avenue), When Bergman looks o [...] D
When the car enters the driveway during the opening-credit sequence, the blindfolded man is shown t [...] D
When Wigand is in the Seelbach Hotel on the phone with Bergman, Wigand says that he "can see them ( [...] D
When Lowell Bergman, Mike Wallace, Dr. Wigand, and his wife are at dinner just before the interview [...] D
In the scene of the interview with the sheik, Mike Wallace asks, "Do you think I'm a 78-year-old as [...] D
In the scene when Wigand is leaving Louisville to testify in Mississippi, the airport shown is not [...] D
The timeline is compressed and rearranged for dramatic purposes with certain key events in the movi [...] D
When Dr. Wigand comes home, a van is parked in the driveway. The phone number on the van is 1-800-C [...] D
On three separate occasions, the same Yellow Taxi is occupied by Bergman or greeted by Bergman when [...] D
After the alleged intruder incident, when Wigand is questioned about possessing firearms, he mentio [...] D
When Bergman and Wigand first meet in the hotel, Bergman places two documents on the table for him [...] D