Pacino & Crowe Are Superb

Rating: 8/10 (8 December 2016)

The Insider (1999)
Plot In A Paragraph: Based on a true story about a CBS 60 Minutes-episode in 1994 on malpractices in the tobacco industry, that was not aired because CBS parent company Westinghouse objected.
This is a much better movie than I Remembered, but it's still long and slow at times, and I do still think it could use a bit of trimming here and there. But Mann does a good job of building suspense and frustration.
Al Pacino and Russell Crowe are both superb. (I personally think Pacino should have been nominated alongside Crowe.) They are ably backed up by great supporting actors Christopher Plumber, Phillip Baker Hall and Bruce McGill.
As always in a Mann movie we get strong female characters. Diane Vernora (who previously started in Heat)
What was dramatised Hollywood invention and what was real I guess we won't know!!
The Insider grossed $29 million at the domestic Box Office to end the year the 69th highest grossing movie of 1999.