Director: Michael Mann | 1999 | 157 min
“Former tobacco company researcher Jeffrey Wigand knew too much about the industry’s dark secrets. The reality of giant corporations intentionally manipulating nicotine’s addictiveness and concealing health hazards—revealing this would destroy his life. Threats, family breakdown, social annihilation. Meanwhile, Lowell Bergman, producer of CBS’s ’60 Minutes,’ fights to report the truth. But corporate pressure reaches even the media, and journalism’s ideals clash with reality. A gripping true story depicting the heavy price paid by whistleblowers and the difficulty of telling the truth. Michael Mann’s masterpiece of substantial social thriller.”
Production: Touchstone Pictures, Forward Pass Pictures
Cast: Al Pacino (Lowell Bergman), Russell Crowe (Jeffrey Wigand), Christopher Plummer (Mike Wallace), Diane Venora (Liane Wigand), Philip Baker Hall (Don Hewitt), Lindsay Crouse (Debbie De Luca)
Screenplay: Eric Roth, Michael Mann
Based on: “The Man Who Knew Too Much” by Marie Brenner
Cinematography: Dante Spinotti
Music: Lisa Gerrard, Pieter Bourke
Awards: 72nd Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing (7 nominations)
Box Office: $60.8 million (worldwide)
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