A real life thriller about an American hero!

Rating: 9/10 (20 September 2000)

"The Insider" is an exceptionally well acted and well produced film. It faithfully tells the true story of Jeffrey S. Wigand, a former top executive with Brown and Williamson tobacco company, and the man who "blew the whistle" on his former employer with his now famous interview with Mike Wallace on the CBS news show "60 Minutes."
This film is interspersed with superb performances by Russell Crowe (as Wigand), Al Pacino (as CBS news producer Lowell Bergman) and Christopher Plummer (as Wallace.) The screenplay crackles with tension in this real-life drama; the film has a dark, taut and suspenseful mood which kept me completely engrossed from start to finish, and reminded me of another true-to-life film with similar themes of "whistleblowing" and journalistic integrity: "All the President's Men."
"The Insider" is a movie I will view and savor...over and over again!!