Al Pacino

Russell Crowe

Christopher Plummer

Diane Venora

Philip Baker Hall

Lindsay Crouse

Debi Mazar

Stephen Tobolowsky

Colm Feore

Bruce McGill

Gina Gershon

Michael Gambon

Rip Torn

Lynne Thigpen

Hallie Eisenberg

Michael Paul Chan

Linda Hart

Robert Harper

Nestor Serrano

Pete Hamill

Wings Hauser

Cliff Curtis

Renee Olstead

Michael Moore

Gary Sandy

Willie C. Carpenter

Paul Butler

Jack Palladino

Megan Odebash

Roger Bart

Alan Desatti

Sayed Badreya

Chris Ufland

Douglas McGrath

Bill Sage

Joseph Hindy

Dennis Garber

Tim Grimm

Paul Perri

Wanda De Jesus

Robert Patrick Brink

Vincent Foster

James Harper

Eyal Podell

Breckin Meyer

David Roberson

Gregg E. Muravchick

William P. Bradford

David Clyde Carr

Ann Reskin

Claire Slemmer

Steve Salge

Derrick Jones

Donald F. Burbrink

Vyto Ruginis

George R. Parsons

Isodine Loury

Charlene Bosarge

Saemi Nakamura

Ronal G. Yokley

Bob Lazarus

Robert J. Ragno Jr.

Alvin L. Welch

Nathan Lewis Hill

Paula Bisbikos

Christi Evans

Knox White

Amy L. Caudill

Cara Briese

Phil Hawn

Spencer Kayden

Zane Lamprey

Don Langley

Clyde Lee

Robert D. Parham

Roger Phenix

Scott Ritcher

Brian Canberg

J.B. Flinn

Tom Jones

Ted Speaker

Robbie G. Tomlin

Susan Wagner

Michael Mann

Eric Roth

Pieter Jan Brugge

Pieter Bourke

Lisa Gerrard

Dante Spinotti

William Goldenberg

David Rosenbloom

Paul Rubell

Marie Brenner

Esther Ben-Noon

John Caglione Jr.

Jeni Lee Dinkel

Heidi Kulow

Paul Shane Durazo

Bonnie Timmermann

Brian Morris

Anna B. Sheppard

Julie Pitkanen

Avishay Avivi

John Kasarda

James E. Tocci

Erik Olson

Steven Schwartz

Robert A. Blackburn

Robert DiGrigoli

John E. Gray

Chris Watts

Alison E. McBryde

Michele Michel

Emily Loreto

Carolyn Dessert

Leah Brown

Julie Glick

Eva Z. Cabrera

Gusmano Cesaretti

Avi Kleinberger

Michael Waxman

Bill Myer

Judith A. Cory

Joel Kramer

Frank Connor

Margie Stone McShirley

Stephen Lim

Jody Spilkoman

Kathleen M. Shea

Shlomo Urbach

Julie Herrin

Patrick Mangan

Daniel Oron

Itai Tamir

Basti Van Der Woude

Beth Kushnick

Miguel Markin

Chris L. Spellman

Sharon Shevach

Gregory Plotkin

Graeme Revell

Revital Zimering

Art Schaefer

Nancy Haigh

Gary Jay

J. Michael Muro

Duane Manwiller

David Galbraith

Glenn Brown

James W. Apted

Aran Mann

Thomas A. Payne

William Bowling

Janice Polley

Alan Forbes

Julie Hannum

Chanel Salzer

Jeffrey W. Petersen

Pat Fitzpatrick

Eric Cochran

Jeff Enneking

Javier Ferrer

Michael A. Walsh

Scott M. Robinson

Jay Kleinhesselink

Alberto S. Ramos

Ray Ochoa

Allen De Silva

Sean Higgins

Hollywood Heard

Robert Duggan

Daniel Duggan

Ian Kelly

David Presley

Dan Dobson

Charles Stewart

Selma Kora

Michael Hansen

Drama

Thriller

The Insider

Touchstone Pictures

Mann/Roth Productions

Forward Pass

United States of America

What if Michael Mann, Russell Crowe and Al Pacino ensemble in a film all together? Well, The Insider, with the above clever formula does exist and it is definitely an earthly paradise. Russell Crowe is a tobacco industry researcher named Jeffrey Wigand who accidentally revealed a addictive substance abuse in a famous tobacco company named Big Tobacco. He appeared in a CBS program “60 Minutes” based on an invitation by its presenter, Mike Wallace. His fate changed drastically, he had no choice but to sacrifice his reputation, job and family. In contrast to his heroic role in Gladiator, Crowe here plays excellently as a hero who tries to fight for his freedom as it is taken away when he has to deal with corporate criminals. Al Pacino performs well as usual in his role as an investigating journalist named Lowell Bergman. Mann attractively packed this 2,5 hour long crime drama with a variety of careful analysis so that this film is away from boring.

I was drooling when I saw the first preview. the talent involved in this...aaaaahhhhhhh.

You just know it's going to be good.

And Crowe, who thinks he's the best actor who ever lived actually acted in this. Seeing him actually act is worth it. Many of us believed it was only a legend, but here it is, proof he does have talent somewhere beneath the brass.

Pacino, Mann, Plummer, Gabon and you turn around and low and behold Gershon is doing a good job too.

It's like a dream cast with a B-Team that rises up to the challenge.

I'd give it a 10 if...wait, I can 10 of 10 just because it is a privilege to watch everyone in this film...who cares about the plot even? It could have been the worst story ever written and the cast and director would have saved it. It was like they were doing Richard III. that quality of awesome.