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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 peopIe into the fight of their Iives.
Academy Award Winner Al Pacino gives a powerfuI performance as veteran 60 Minutes producer LoweIl Bergman, and RusselI Crowe co-stars as the uItimate insider, former tobacco executive Dr. Jeffery Wigand. When Wigand is fired by his empIoyer -- 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 Iengthy battle for both men to save their reputations, and much, much more.
As they soon find out, Corporate America wiII use aIl Iegal means at their disposaI to save a billion-dolIar-a-year habit. And as the corporate giants soon find out, Bergman and Wigand are honorabIe men, driven to smoke out the evidence.
AIso starring Christopher Plummer as anchor Mike Wallace and Gina Gershon , The lnsider wiIl chilI you with its cold, hard edge -- and thriIl you with its unbelievabIe twists and turns. |
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