The Insider
“Two men driven to tell the truth … whatever the cost.”
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
Genres
Drama, Thriller
Studio
Touchstone Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Insider performed
Budget
$90.0M
Worldwide Gross
$60.3M
Gross Profit
−$29.7M
Return
0.7× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$9M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Lowell Bergman
Al Pacino
Lowell Bergman
Jeffrey Wigand
Russell Crowe
Jeffrey Wigand
Mike Wallace
Christopher Plummer
Mike Wallace
Liane Wigand
Diane Venora
Liane Wigand
Don Hewitt
Philip Baker Hall
Don Hewitt
Sharon Tiller
Lindsay Crouse
Sharon Tiller
Debbie De Luca
Debi Mazar
Debbie De Luca
Eric Kluster
Stephen Tobolowsky
Eric Kluster
Richard Scruggs
Colm Feore
Richard Scruggs
Ron Motley
Bruce McGill
Ron Motley
Helen Caperelli
Gina Gershon
Helen Caperelli
Thomas Sandefur
Michael Gambon
Thomas Sandefur
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