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Buena Vista (1999)
Drama | Thriller
USA | English | Color | 02:37
mike0221's movies
The Insider
Tells the true story of a 60 Minutes television series exposé of the tobacco industry, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand
Cast View all
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Al Pacino | Lowell Bergman |
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Russell Crowe | Jeffrey Wigand |
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Christopher Plummer | Mike Wallace |
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Diane Venora | Liane Wigand |
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Philip Baker Hall | Don Hewitt |
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Lindsay Crouse | Sharon Tiller |
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Debi Mazar | Debbie De Luca |
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Stephen Tobolowsky | Eric Kluster |
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Colm Feore | Richard Scruggs |
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Bruce McGill | Ron Motley |
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Gina Gershon | Helen Caperelli |
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Michael Gambon | Thomas Sandefur |
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Rip Torn | John Scanlon |
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Lynne Thigpen | Mrs. Williams |
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Hallie Kate Eisenberg | Barbara Wigand |
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Michael Paul Chan | Norman the Cameraman |
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Linda Hart | Mrs. Wigand |
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Robert Harper | Mark Stern |
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Nestor Serrano | FBI Agent Robertson |
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Pete Hamill | NY Times Reporter |
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Wings Hauser | Tobacco Lawyer |
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Cliff Curtis | Sheikh Fadlallah |
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Renee Olstead | Deborah Wigand |
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Mike Moore | Michael Moore |
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Gary Sandy | Lawyer (Sandefur's) |
Crew
| Director | Michael Mann |
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| Writer | Marie Brenner, Eric Roth, Michael Mann | |
| Producer | Pieter Jan Brugge, Gusmano Cesaretti, Avi Kleinberger, Michael Mann, Kathleen M. Shea, Shlomo Urbach, Michael Waxman | |
| Musician | Pieter Bourke, Lisa Gerrard | |
| Photography | Dante Spinotti | |
Trailer
Edition details
| Edition | Koop |
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| Packaging | Keep Case |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
| Screen Ratios | Theatrical Widescreen (2.35:1) |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital 5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1 [English] Dolby Digital 5.1 [French] |
| Subtitles | Dutch | English | English (Closed Captioned) |
| Layers | Single side, Single layer |
| Edition Release Date | Apr 11, 2000 |
| Regions | Region 1 |
Personal
| Watched | |
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| Quantity | 1 |
| Index | 921 |
| Added Date | Mar 10, 2012 13:58:31 |
| Modified Date | Jun 12, 2022 00:32:59 |
Notes
Story Synopsis:
Based on the article in Vanity Fair by Marie Brenner, The Insider recounts the true story of a tobacco company executive who upon being fired by one of the largest producers in America, becomes a paid informant for the television program 60 Minutes, with near-deadly consequences for those involved.
DVD Picture:
The anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 DVD picture, viewed in component video, exhibits nicely rendered image quality and intriguing cinematography and hand-held camera work. The picture is stylized and sometimes overly contrasted. Colors are rich and balanced with deep, pure blacks. Images are sharp, with fine definition in facial details and backgrounds. Enhanced edges, pixelization and artifacts are noticed, and minor film grain is occasionally revealed. Overall, the stylized picture is quite clean and pleasing.
Soundtrack:
The Dolby® Digital 5.1-channel soundtrack is dimensionally confined to the screen channels. Nonetheless, fidelity is remarkable. The dialogue is the driving element of this soundtrack, and sounds impressively natural, but spatial integration is compromised. Sound effects are confined to the screen, and their effectiveness with placement in producing depth is limited. Although this is a 5.1 soundtrack, the .1 LFE-and deep bass for that matter-is constrained and limited to the music score, which has decent stereophonic spread across the screen.