The truth is dangerous – but silence is even more dangerous.
The Insider is an intense, suspenseful drama that exposes the dark secrets of the tobacco industry, and has garnered seven Oscar nominations. Director Michael Mann ( Heat ) takes viewers through a moral and legal battleground with lives and billions of dollars at stake.
Jeffrey Wigand ( Russell Crowe ) is a former tobacco company research director who knows too much: he has evidence that the industry is deliberately increasing the addictiveness of cigarettes, regardless of health risks. Producer Lowell Bergman ( Al Pacino ) wants Wigand to tell the truth on 60 Minutes . Wigand finds himself in the middle of a smear campaign, threats and legal battles that threaten to cost him his family, his reputation and his freedom.
