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Insider, The
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The Insider recounts the chain of events that pitted an ordinary man against the tobacco industry, and dragged two people into the fight of their lives.
Academy Award Winner Al Pacino gives a powerful performance as veteran 60 Minutes producer Lowell Bergman, and RusseIl Crowe co-stars as the ultimate 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 wiII use alI Iegal means at their disposaI to save a billion-dollar-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 Plummer as anchor Mike WaIIace and Gina Gershon , The lnsider wiIl chiIl you with its cold, hard edge -- and thriII you with its unbeIievable twists and turns. |
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