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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Disney
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9780788820595
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0788820591
Label: Walt Disney Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
MPN: 717951007391
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 11, 2000
Running Time: 157 minutes
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
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
Amazon.com essential video:
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
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It is 2.35 Anamorphic
The only thing I noticed unusual is that the horiz. black bars are uneven, 33% on top and 66% on bottom. Its not 50/50 or horiz. centered as with most other 2.35:1. It's NOT a BIG DEAL, just a little horiz. offset.
Great Movie, still worth purchasing !!
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Two of my very favorite actors do not disappoint! Crowe & Pacino are riveting in this suspenseful drama. Well crafted, brilliantly acted, highly prophetic story line (won't give away the plot).
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Whether you care about the politics of The Insider or not, as far as sheer entertainment goes this film will hook you instantly.
The film is directed by Michael Mann, with a script by Mann and Oscar-winner Eric Roth. Mann is a talented director with just a few failures under his belt. The Insider is one of his strongest directorial efforts and also one of his most overlooked (despite being nominated for 7 Academy Awards in 1999).
The film is based on a true story with some ... Read More
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An Enthralling story, shot with a granular, visceral, adjusting focus-style that is popular in some of todays best shows, such as Battlestar Gallactica, and some of Micheal Mann's more contemporary films. The acting cast deserves a standing ovation. There isn't a moment of dissapointment in this modern movie classic. More about our Media and the fragil interconnection of politics and real world, with the case of Hope, and its trumpcard effect.
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Watch this film for Russel Crowe's amazing transformation in to Jeffrey Wigand, a scientist and family man tortured with the knowledge that he helped cover up evidence of the disasterous health effects of cigarettes for the tobacco industry. It took me a good 10 minutes to realize that the man on the screen was indeed Crowe - he inhabited his character that well.
Also watch this film because it is a rare Pacino role of the last 10 years where he wasn't just playing himself. The scenes with ... Read More
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