The Insider

The Insider is a 1999, true story, movie directed by Michael Mann that was nominated for seven academy awards. Russell Crowe's performance in this movie is absolutely fantastic and he was nominated for an academy award for his role.  He would follow this role up with a best actor academy award for Gladiator.  Russell Crowe plays a employee for a tobacco company who starts to leak information to the journalist Lowell Bergman, played by Al Pacino despite the fact that it was in his contract not too.  Russell Crowe takes you on a wonderful ride and you really end up rooting for both Russell Crowe and Al Pacino.

Al Pacino also delivers a fantastic performance despite not being nominated.  He plays a journalist who has to fight with the upper news persons at CBS because they do not want to show the story on 60 minutes that would deal a huge blow to big tobacco.  What really brings these performances together is the fantastic directing by Michael Mann and the cinematography work by Dante Spinotti together they paint a beautiful picture of a thrilling story about two men.  I think this is one of the best news movies to ever be filmed.  I do have a bias because the movie is about my uncle Lowell Bergman who is played by Al Pacino.

It is a fantastic movie and Christopher Plummer as one of the CBS heads really rounds out the cast of a fantastic movie.  It is really worth seeing and you will not be disappointed