Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Daryl Zero (A) on February 17, 2010 at 20:02:54

how the decade of the 2000s really is lacking some serious movies. Loved that movie. Thought Crowe, Plummer and Pacino (last time I can remember him not chewing up the scenary) were just great. It is a movie I want my kids to see. If you don't know, it is about 60 Minutes investigation of the tobacco industry. Plummer plays Mike Wallace, Crowe plays tobacco insider and whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand and Al Pacino plays 60 Minutes producer Lowell Bergman. Much of the first part is about Wigand's fallout with the industry and his struggling to decide how to handle it. He gets accidentally recruited by producer Bergman who nurses Wigand's desire to come forward despite the peril and destruction of his life and family life. Then the story shifts to CBS which gets cowed by big tobacco's threats of litigation and quashes the story. Bergman then fights the suits including his own partner Mike Wallace to get the story heard. Intelligent and very entertaining.