Balls-out “60 Minutes” producer Lowell Bergman sniffs a story when a former research biologist for Brown & Williamson, Jeff Wigand, won’t talk to him. 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 interview and risks arrest for contempt of court. Westinghouse is negotiating to buy CBS, so CBS attorneys advise CBS News to shelve the interview and avoid a lawsuit. “60 Minutes” and CBS News bosses cave, Wigand is hung out to dry, Bergman is compromised, and the CEOs of Big Tobacco may get away with perjury. Will the truth out?
Release Date: 5 November 1999Runtime: 157 min
Stars:
- Al Pacino
- Bruce McGill
- Christopher Plummer
- Colm Feore
- Debi Mazar
- Diane Venora
- Gina Gershon
- Hallie Kate Eisenberg
- Lindsay Crouse
- Lynne Thigpen
- Michael Gambon
- Philip Baker Hall
- Rip Torn
- Russell Crowe
- Stephen Tobolowsky
Director: Michael Mann
