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Nominated for seven Oscars, this though-provoking thriller from director Michael Mann
is based on the true story of a Big Tobacco scientist who exposed industry secrets and the newsman who fought forces that would have squelched the story. When TV producer Lowell Bergman
(Al Pacino)
coaxes researcher Jeffrey Wigand
(Russell Crowe)
to speak about his former employer's knowledge of tobacco's harmful qualities, the corporations try to silence them.
Rated R 2 hours 37 minutes 1999
4 stars. Would have been 5 but they really dragged the story out and it lost us a bit. Very fascinating and interesting story otherwise!
