The Insider (1999)

The Insider (1999)

Director: Michael Mann
Release Date: 5 November 1999 (USA)
Genre: Biography | Drama | Thriller
IMDB Link: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0140352/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Insider_(film)

Tagline: Warning: Exposing the Truth May Be Hazardous

Plot:
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a "60 Minutes" expose on Big Tobacco.

This film tells the true story of Jeffrey Wigand, a former tobacco executive, who decided to appear on the CBS-TV News show "60 Minutes." As matter of conscience partially prodded by producer Lowell Bergman, he revealed that, the tobacco industry was not only aware that cigarettes are addictive & harmful, but deliberately worked on increasing that addictiveness. Unfortunately, both protagonists of this story learn the hard way that simply telling the truth is not enough as they struggle against both Big Tobacco's attempts to silence them and the CBS TV Network's own cowardly complickt preference of putting money as a higher priority over the truth.