The Insider
List Price:
Our Price: $9.99
You Save: $5.00 (33%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $4.48 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Colm Feore, Lindsay Crouse, Michael Gambon, Michael Paul Chan, Russell CroweBrand: PACINO,AL
Cinematographer: Dante Spinotti
Composer: Graeme Revell
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.35:1
Running Time: 158 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-04-11
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Movie Reviews of The Insider
Movie Review: A Masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow! Al Pacino (terrific and not overacting!) and Russell Crowe (devastating performance) in a "based on true story" about the tobacco industry, "60-Minutes," Mike Wallace (brilliantly played by Christopher Plummer and conspiracy to addict Americans.
Summary of The Insider
As revisionist history, Michael Mann's intelligent docudrama The Insider is a simmering brew of altered facts and dramatic license. In a broader perspective, however, the film (cowritten with Forrest Gump Oscar-winner Eric Roth) is effectively accurate as an engrossing study of ethics in the corruptible industries of tobacco and broadcast journalism. On one side, there is Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe), the former tobacco scientist who violated contractual agreements to expose Brown & Williamson's inclusion of addictive ingredients in cigarettes, casting himself into a vortex of moral dilemma. On the other side is 60 Minutes producer Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino), whose struggle to report Wigand's story puts him at odds with veteran correspondent Mike Wallace (Christopher Plummer) and senior executives at CBS News.As the urgency of the story increases, so does the film's palpable sense of paranoia, inviting favorable comparison to All the President's Men. While Pacino downplays the theatrical excess that plagued him in previous roles, Crow is superb as a man who retains his tortured integrity at great personal cost. The Insider is two movies--a cover-up thriller and a drama about journalistic ethics--that combine to embrace the noble values personified by Wigand and Bergman. Even if the details aren't always precise (as Mike Wallace and others protested prior to the film's release), the film adheres to a higher truth that was so blatantly violated by tobacco executives seen in an oft-repeated video clip, lying under oath in the service of greed. --Jeff Shannon
Recounts the chain of events that pitted an ordinary man against the tobacco industry, and dragged two people into the fight of their lives.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 1-JUN-2004
Media Type: DVD
Drama DVD Video
DVD Video
- Action & Adventure
- African American Cinema
- Animation
- Anime & Manga
- Art House & International
- Classics
- Comedy
- Cult Movies
- Documentary
- Drama
- Educational
- Fitness & Yoga
- Gay & Lesbian
- Horror
- Kids & Family
- Military & War
- Music Video & Concerts
- Musicals & Performing Arts
- Mystery & Suspense
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Special Interests
- Sports
- Television
- Westerns
Movies most talked about in My Favorite Thrillers/Action Movies
Batman Begins (Two-Disc Special Edition)HOLMES/BALE/OLDMAN; Release date: 2005-10-18; DVD
Best price: $12.74
Price in other shops:
The Bourne Identity (Widescreen Extended Edition)DAMON/POTENTE/STILES/COOPER/COX/; Release date: 2004-07-13; DVD
Best price: $7.85
Price in other shops:
Saving Private Ryan (Special Limited Edition)HANKS,TOM; Release date: 1999-11-02; DVD
Best price: $5.99
Price in other shops:
The InsiderPACINO,AL; Release date: 2000-04-11; DVD
Best price: $5.71
Price in other shops:
Die HardTWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2007-06-19; DVD
Best price: $6.39
Price in other shops:
Lethal Weapon - The Complete SeriesWarner Brothers; Release date: 2000-09-05; DVD
Best price: $19.99
Price in other shops:
Mission Impossible (Special Collector's Edition)PARAMOUNT PICTURES; Release date: 2006-04-11; DVD
Best price: $6.74
Price in other shops:
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Special Edition)PARAMOUNT PICTURES; Release date: 2008-05-13; DVD
Best price: $8.47
Price in other shops:
The GameDOUGLAS,MICHAEL; Release date: 2002-08-27; DVD
Best price: $6.12
Price in other shops:
Heat (Two-Disc Special Edition)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2005-02-22; DVD
Best price: $14.94
Price in other shops:
Similar DVD Movies
Serpico (Widescreen Edition)PACINO,AL; Release date: 2002-12-03; DVD
Best price: $4.65
Price in other shops:
A Civil ActionTRAVOLTA,JOHN; Release date: 1999-07-13; DVD
Best price: $5.29
Price in other shops:
Collateral (Two-Disc Special Edition)Release date: 2004-12-14; DVD
Best price: $2.75
Price in other shops:
Glengarry Glen RossLION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT; Release date: 2002-11-19; DVD
Best price: $5.98
Price in other shops:
All the President's Men (Two-Disc Special Edition)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2006-02-21; DVD
Best price: $16.43
Price in other shops:
A Beautiful Mind (Widescreen Awards Edition)CROWE,RUSSELL; DVD
Best price: $4.94
Price in other shops:
HeatRelease date: 1999-07-27; DVD
Best price: $3.41
Price in other shops:
Quiz ShowRelease date: 1999-09-07; DVD
Best price: $4.23
Price in other shops:
Proof of LifeRYAN,MEG; Release date: 2001-06-19; DVD
Best price: $4.76
Price in other shops:
L.A. ConfidentialSPACEY,KEVIN; Release date: 1998-04-21; DVD
Best price: $2.94
Price in other shops: