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...Lowell Bergman, played by Al Pacino: "60 Minutes" producer, gets Wigand to spill his secrets first on "60 Minutes...
...film focuses on Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, a research executive at Brown and Williamson, a tobacco company; he is wrongfully fired from his job and is soon courted by Lowell Bergman, a "60 Minutes" producer, about a possible tobacco-related story. Wigand is the highest-ranking tobacco insider to ever step forward; he knows every dirty little secret about what exactly companies put into cigarettes, and it's not pretty. Dogged by a confidentiality contract, Wigand is at first reluctant to talk; Bergman coaxes him into talking to "60 Minutes," in the interest of the health of the American people...
...audience members we're all outsiders on this story, at least about whether Wallace betrayed Bergman, to say nothing of his own ideals. Much of what we may ultimately believe could be based on what we intuit from the performances. Because Pacino plays him, Bergman is guaranteed a certain moral passion. (Think Hurricane Andrew as Carl Bernstein.) Meanwhile, Christopher Plummer plays Wallace as a man possessing not only a worldliness that might incline him to compromise with his corporate bosses but also an ample self-regard that would keep him mindful of his reputation--and one whose careful intelligence could...
...Insider (Why not call it Smoke?) has Al Pacino (as 60 Minutes producer Lowell Bergman) pointing and shouting like an aging mafioso. But Pacino is one of the good guys. The real gangsters are tobacco barons in Louisville, Ky., and network lawyers in New York City. They speak in genial or condoling tones; they have only the best interests of their corporations at heart and truly hope you see it their way. Otherwise they'll crush you. Brown & Williamson CEO Thomas Sandefur (played by Michael Gambon) has a manner as smooth as the draw of a Kool menthol into...
...heart, the movie is about family betrayal, the corporate torture of two insiders (Wigand at Brown & Williamson, Bergman at CBS) by the people they worked for and with. Its caveat, which any wage slave should ponder, is that you can be hurt by your bosses' strength or weakness. A change in the corporate weather, and the most valued employee is suddenly expendable--an outsider. Do you fight to get back in? Or plot, with only your rancorous conscience as a guide, how to survive, alone, in the cold...