The Insider

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Release date 1999

Duration 157 min

Producer(s) Pieter Jan Brugge, Gusmano Cesaretti, Avi Kleinberger...more

Director(s) Michael Mann...more Michael Mann...less

Writer(s) Marie Brenner, Eric Roth, Michael Mann...more

Cast Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer...more

Genre Biography, Drama,

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Don Hewitt:
I heard Wigand's deposition got sealed.
Lowell Bergman:
Yeah, they argued he was gonna reveal the secret formula of Kools to the world.

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Lowell Bergman:
I did not burn you. I did not give you up to anyone!
Jeffrey Wigand:
This is my house... In front of my wife, my kids? What business do we have?
Lowell Bergman:
To straighten something out with you. Right here. Right now.
Jeffrey Wigand:
So, you didn't mention my name? You haven't talked to anybody about me?
Lowell Bergman:
Why am I gonna mention your name?
Jeffrey Wigand:
How did Brown & Williamson know I spoke to you...?
Lowell Bergman:
How the hell do I know about Brown & Williamson?
Jeffrey Wigand:
It happened after I talked to you. I do not like coincidences!
Lowell Bergman:
And I don't like paranoid accusations! I'm a journalist. Think. Use your head. How do I operate as a journalist by screwing the people who could provide me with information before they provided me with it?
Jeffrey Wigand:
[pauses] ... You came all the way down here to tell me that?

Lowell Bergman:
In all that time, Mike, did you ever get out a plane, walk into a room and find that a source for a story changed his mind? Lost his heart? Walked out on us? Not one fucking time. You want to know why?
Mike Wallace:
I see a rhetorical question on the horizon.
Lowell Bergman:
I'm gonna tell you why: because when I tell someone I'm gonna do something, I deliver.

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Lowell Bergman:
Are you a businessman? Or are you a news man?

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Sharon Tiller:
Get some perspective, Lowell.
Lowell Bergman:
I got perspective.
Sharon Tiller:
No, you do not.
Lowell Bergman:
From my perspective, what's been going on and what I've been doing is ridiculous. It's half-measures.
Sharon Tiller:
You're not listening. Really know what you're gonna do before you do it.

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Lowell Bergman:
What does this guy have to say that threatens these people?
Mike Wallace:
Well, it isn't that cigarrettes are bad for you.
Lowell Bergman:
Hardly new news.
Mike Wallace:
No shit.

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[Jeff won't answer the phone, Lowell is on the telephone to the manager of the hotel he is at]
Lowell Bergman:
I want you to tell him, in this - in these words: "Get on the fucking phone!"
The Hotel Worker:
I can't say that.
Lowell Bergman:
No, you can. Tell him to get on the fucking phone!
The Hotel Worker:
He told me to tell you to "Get on the... fucking phone!"

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Mike Wallace:
And that's what cigarettes are for?
Jeffrey Wigand:
A delivery device for nicotine.
Mike Wallace:
A delivery device for nicotine. Put it in your mouth, lit it up and you're gonna get your fix?
Jeffrey Wigand:
You're gonna get your fix.

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Mike Wallace:
Am I missing something?
John Harris:
What do you mean, Mike?
Mike Wallace:
I mean, he's got a corporate secrecy agreement - give me a break! I mean, this is a public health issue! Like an unsafe airframe on a passenger jet or some company dumping cyanide into the East River, issues like that! He can talk, we can air it! They've got no right to hide behind a "corporate agreement"! Pass the milk.

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Richard Scruggs:
I'd be lying to you if I did not tell you how important it was in a court of public opinion.
Lowell Bergman:
And I'd be lying if I did not tell, I'm about out of moves, Dick.

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Tobacco Lawyer:
Dr. Wigand, I am instructing you not to answer that question in accordance to the terms of the contractual obligations undertaken by you not to disclose any information about your work at the Brown and Williamson tobacco company, and in accordance with the force and effect of the temporary restraining order that has been entered against you by the court in the state of Kentucky. That means you don't talk! Mr. Motley we have rights here.
Ron Motley:
Boy, you got rights... and lefts. Ups and downs and middles. So what? You don't get to instruct anything around here! This is not North Carolina, not South Carolina, nor Kentucky! This is the sovereign state of Mississippi's proceedings. Wipe that smirk off your face! Dr. Wigand's deposition will be part of this record! And I'm gonna take my witness' testimony whether the hell you like it or not!

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Jeffrey Wigand:
How did a radical journalist from Ramparts Magazine end up at CBS?
Lowell Bergman:
I still do the tough stories. 60 Minutes reaches a lot of people.

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