Grace and consistency? Sign In. Play trailer Biography Drama Thriller. Director Michael Mann. Top credits Director Michael Mann. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer The Insider. Clip Photos Top cast Edit. Lynne Thigpen Mrs. Williams as Mrs. Linda Hart Mrs. Wigand as Mrs. Michael Mann. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. When the company leans hard on Wigand to honor a confidentiality agreement, he gets his back up. Trusting Bergman, and despite a crumbling marriage, he goes on camera for a Mike Wallace Christopher Plummer interview and risks arrest for contempt of court.
Will the truth come out? Rated R for language. Did you know Edit. Trivia Mike Moore , the Attorney General of Mississippi, played himself for the scenes involving the lawsuit. Goofs In the beginning of the film when Mike Wallace refuses to move his chair away from the Sheik, the translator translates Mike's English into Farsi to the Arabic-speaking Hezbollah. Farsi and Arabic are not the same language and usually Persians and Arabs do not understand each other's languages, unless they studied them.
Quotes Mike Wallace : Who are these people? Alternate versions The TV version is actually longer than the theatrical version and was extended over two nights.
The edit was supervised by director Michael Mann. Records Inc. User reviews Review. In order to do so, Wigand must break an ironclad nondisclosure agreement he signed with the company. After some machination, much of it involving an anti-tobacco lawsuit being brought about by the attorney general of Mississippi, Bergman finally gets the whistle-blower to sit for a 60 Minutes interview with legendary newsman Mike Wallace Christopher Plummer — but then has to fight his CBS colleagues, including both Wallace and 60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt Philip Baker Hall , when the company, fearing a lawsuit that could derail their impending sale to Westinghouse Corporation, declines to air the segment and instead runs a toothless, abridged version of the story.
Bergman goes on the warpath, using his connections elsewhere in the media to force CBS to air the full segment. The Insider starts off as a movie about the lies of Big Tobacco, but then transforms, halfway through, into a whole other movie about the corporate control of media. And yes, it does involve a lot of talking. After seeing the abridged version of the 60 Minutes piece about Wigand that aired in late , Mann had a revelation.
You see, The Insider was produced by Touchstone Pictures, a Disney subsidiary, and it dramatized recent events involving several other huge, rather litigious corporations, including CBS, which after all was a competitor to Disney-owned ABC. To avoid any potential lawsuits, the movie had to be rock solid when it came to accuracy. Some of the individuals involved in the events cooperated with the filmmakers. Some did not. Of course, Wallace — who comes off as a complex, flawed character in the movie — would later slam The Insider for what he felt were inaccuracies.
He invented the hard interview and he was great at it. For Mann, the appeal of The Insider lay not so much in the particulars of the Wigand case, or even the behind-the-scenes drama at CBS, but the push-pull between two extreme, intense personalities: the repressed Wigand, a scientist who had betrayed his ideals and gone to work for a tobacco company, and the dogged Bergman, who felt he was realizing the radical ideals of his youth via investigative journalism.
He is so centered. The other guy is living within well-architected, constructed simulacrums of a life that he inhabits only a part of. Jeffrey Wigand has put himself in a state of contradiction in relation to how he should be perceived in his own mind. Then, we see Wigand at his office in Kentucky, quietly packing his things against a large window, behind which his colleagues are having a birthday party.
Bergman is always aware of his constantly shifting, often dangerous surroundings, even when blindfolded; Wigand seems to be living in an aquarium, lost in his own world behind glass walls. In Heat , the protagonists were in constant opposition to each other, but their perspectives were equally balanced; you rooted for the robber to get away while simultaneously rooting for the cop to catch him.
Following The Insider , he started experimenting with digital video, finding in the low-lit intimacy of handheld DV cameras an unprecedented, you-are-there quality. Consider an early scene when Wigand is called into talk to his former employer after his first meeting with Bergman. To match the frenetic visual style, Mann populated his cast with actors unafraid of delivering big, broad performances.
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