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The Insider
Directed By Michael Mann

In The Insider, Al Pacino (Heat, Miami Vice) and Al Pacino team up again, this time to take on the tobacco dealers. Without considering the perfume of scandal surrounding its true story plot, the film is a well-crafted and intense thriller.

The Insider tells the story of whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand (played by a formidable Russell Crowe), a scientist for one of the top seven American tobacco giants, Brown & Williamson, who has more than unkind words for his former employer about the use of additives like ammonia to cigarettes to make the nicotine rush that much stronger. He is fired, given a compensation package, and then threatened and blackmailed into signing a wider corporate confidentiality agreement to keep quiet. Enter Lowell Bergman (Pacino): edgy 60 Minutes producer, hardhitting and schooled in 60's leftism, and morally Wigand's equal. He gets Wigand to tell his story and it will air like all of the ot