Yapım :1999 Ülke : Amerika Tür : Thriller Süre : 157 dakika IMDB Puan : 7.9/10 IMDB ID: tt0140352
A.K.A a.k.a. 60 Minutes (1999) (USA)(pre-release title) Man of the People (1999) (USA)(working title) Untitled Michael Mann Film (1998) (USA)(working title) Untitled Tobacco Project, The (1998) (USA)(working title)
Oyuncular Al Pacino - Lowell Bergman Russell Crowe - Dr. Jeffrey Wigand Christopher Plummer - Mike Wallace Diane Venora - Liane Wigand Philip Baker Hall - Don Hewitt Lindsay Crouse - Sharon Tiller Debi Mazar - Debbie De Luca Stephen Tobolowsky - Eric Kluster Colm Feore - Richard Scruggs Bruce McGill - Ron Motley
Bilgi :Based on a true story about a CBS 60 Minutes-episode in 1994 on malpractices in the tobacco industry, that was not aired because CBS parent company Westinghouse objected. Pacino plays the 60 Minutes reporter.Balls-out "60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman sniffs a story when a former research biologist for Brown & Williamson, Jeff Wigand, wont 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, Wigands hung out to dry, Bergman is compromised, and the CEOs of Big Tobacco may get away with perjury. Can the truth will out?This film tells the true story of Jeffrey Wigand, a former tobacco executive, who decided to appear on the CBS-TV News show "60 Minutes." As matter of conscience partially prodded by producer Lowell Bergman, he revealed that, the tobacco industry was not only aware that cigarettes are addictive & harmful, but deliberately worked on increasing that addictiveness. Unfortunately, both protagonists of this story learn the hard way that simply telling the truth is not enough as they struggle against both Big Tobaccos attempts to silence them and the CBS TV Networks own cowardly complict preference of putting money as a higher priority over the truth.Tratto da un "caso" giudiziario di questi anni, il film racconta dellincontro fra Jeffrey Wigand, dirigente di una importante compagnia di produzione del tabacco, e Lowell Bergman, produttore del famoso rotocalco televisivo 60 minutes. Wigand è stato licenziato perchè dissente dalle politiche aziendali ed è convinto dal producer a testimoniare contro i suoi ex-padroni in una causa che dimostri il potere assuefativo della nicotina, cosa su cui si fondano le strategie di vendita delle aziende del tabacco. La CBS, proprietaria del network televisivo, decide allultimo momento di non trasmettere lintervista, per timore di eventuali azioni legali da parte delle industrie del tabacco. Ma Bergman non si arrende e torna alla carica sulla carta stampata. Il caso finisce al Congresso americano che, nellautunno del 1999, ratifica un accordo col quale i produttori di sigarette dovranno indennizzare gli stati che hanno fatto loro causa con la cifra di 246 miliardi di dollari. Questa la storia reale, ed anche quella del film.
