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| | Based on a true story about a CBS '60 Minutes' episode concerning malpractices in the tobacco industry.
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Jeffrey Wigand, (Russell Crowe), was a central witness in the lawsuits filed by
Mississippi and 49 other states against the tobacco industry, which were
eventually settled for $246 billion.
Wigand, former head of research and development and as corporate officer at
Brown & Williamson, was a top scientist, the ultimate insider. No one like
him had ever gone public before.
Meanwhile, Lowell Bergman, (Al Pacino), investigative reporter and "60
Minutes" producer, taped the famous Wallace interview with its devastating
testimony and arranged a legal defence team for Wigand.
However, before the most newsworthy "60 Minutes" segment in years
could air, Bergman would lose to a corporate CBS decision to kill it and
experience the fracturing of loyalties within "60 Minutes".
Wigand finds himself sued, targeted in a national smear campaign, divorced and
facing incarceration. Wigand having wagered so much and now unable to deliver
his testimony to the American people and Bergman trying to defeat the smear
campaign and fighting to force CBS to air the interview are two ordinary men in
extraordinary circumstances.
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2000 Touchstone Pictures
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