Product: The Insider [VHS] (1999)
Rating: 4.0
Truth to power
This film is a gutsy portrayal of the lengths the cigarette manufacturing industry would go to, to profit from their deathserving product. Russell Crowe brilliantly portrays the "insider", the "whistle blower", who publicly has the courage to state how the industry is serving up deathsurreptitiously to a naive American public,despite threats against his and his family's life by the cigarette company he had worked for. Al Pacino brilliantly portrays the representative of CBS's 60 Minutes, whooffers the vehicle through which the "insider" can speak to the American public.