1999 · drama · thriller · biography
The Insider
Directed by Michael Mann2h 38m1999
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
Our read: The Insider (1999) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · thriller · biography entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- twisty
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