The movie that should have won the best picture Oscar among the movies nominated

Rating: 10/10 (17 April 2002)

While Fight Club was the best movie from 1999, The Insider should have won the Oscar among the films nominated. Instead, they passed the award to the completely undeserving American Beauty.
Russell Crowe shined as the tortured Wigand, even though the man in real life was actually kind of light hearted. I listened to him speak when he made a rare appearance in Tucson, displaying a persona that seemed far from the one portrayed in the movie. Al Pacino was probably the hippest news producer ever, and the film was most certainly a classic.
Hopefully, people will give this film the respect it most certainly deserves.