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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 lives.
Academy Award Winner AI Pacino gives a powerfuI performance as veteran 60 Minutes producer LoweII Bergman, and RusseII Crowe co-stars as the ultimate insider, former tobacco executive Dr. Jeffery Wigand. When Wigand is fired by his employer -- one of the Iargest tobacco companies in America -- he agrees to become a paid consultant for a story Bergman is working on regarding aIleged unethical practices within the tobacco industry. But what begins as a temporary alliance leads to a lengthy battIe for both men to save their reputations, and much, much more.
As they soon find out, Corporate America wiIl 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.
Also starring Christopher PIummer as anchor Mike WaIlace and Gina Gershon , The Insider wilI chill you with its coId, hard edge -- and thrill you with its unbeIievable twists and turns. |
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