The Insider (1999)

'The Insider' is a movie about former tobacco industry scientist Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe) blowing the whistle on a tobacco industry health cover-up to Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino) and Mike Wallace (Christopher Plummer) of  CBS's '60 Minutes'. A compelling true story that becomes something of a thriller in the hands of crime movie impresario Michael Mann. I'd wanted to see this movie for a long time and it was worth the wait. The real Mike Wallace would later say that he thought the movie was around 2/3rds accurate. ****