The Insider, 1999 (Grade A)

Director: Michael Mann

Awards nominated for lots of Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards and BAFTA awards--but doesn't seem to have won any

Stars: Al Pacino; Russell Crowe; Christoper Plumber; Diane Verone; Philip Baker Hall; Lindsay Crouse; Michael Gambon; Rip Torn

 

sez says: This is a great movie--beautifully made (thank you Michael Mann)  and with a subject worth thinking about (how the media works) -- It is a thriller without a gun shot fired.  It is all about the cost of principals and how power works to corrupt --not in some fair tale way--but in the most matter of fact-- true story manner. Indeed it is base on a true story--and it is a story we all need to know--just like the story in the moive needed to be broadcast. Grade A