The Insider

The time line is compressed and rearranged for dramatic purposes with certain key events in the movie not unfolding as they did in real life.

When 'Lowell Bergman' (qv) has an argument with 'Jeffrey Wigand' (qv) outside of his house in the rain, the amount of wetness on the back of Wigand's suit jacket varies from soaked to almost completely dry.

When Dr.

Wigand comes home, there is a van parked in the driveway.

The phone number on the van is 1-800-CLOCK, which doesn't have enough digits to be a real phone number.

On three separate occasions the same Yellow Taxi is occupied by Bergman or greeted by Bergman when he met Charlie from the Wall Street Journal, the numbers on the roof and door are the "1T80".

The odds of this happening are slight, since there are 11,787 Yellow cabs in New York.

CBS building in New York, which is at 51 West 52 Street, corner of 6th Avenue - when Bergman looks out of the window, Central Park is to the side of the office, making the building on Madison Avenue or even east of that; if he was on 6th Avenue the park would be straight ahead.

Jeffrey Wigand was fired in March 1993.

In the movie he is driving an Audi A4.

Audi didn't have a model called A4 until 1995.

Further, the model shown is a 1998.

When Lowell asks his assistant to get Dr.

Wigand on the phone the next cut shows Dr.

Wigand on a pay phone in a public area.

He could have been paged.

When Bergman talks to Wigand on the phone outside his beach house, he goes into the sea far enough for water to touch his shorts, but they are dry when he comes back inside the house.

On one occasion when Bergman receives a phone call from Jeffrey Wigand, a crewmember's face is reflected in the window behind him.

When Lowell Bergman, Mike Wallace, Dr.

Wigand and his wife are at dinner just before the interview, Dr.

Wigand's wife holds a menu upright close to her body.

The position of her hands on the top of the menu changes directions between the long shots and the close-ups.

The driver's window changes from open to closed to open again when Wigand tells his wife he's been fired and then drives off.

When Bergman and Wigand first meet in the hotel, Bergman places two documents on the table for him to read; the thinner document being placed on top of the thicker one.

When Wigand picks them up the thicker document is on top.

In the scene of the interview with the sheik, 'Mike Wallace (I)' (qv) asks, "Do you think I'm a 78-year-old assassin?" But this took place in 1993, which would put Wallace at 74 or 75 years old.

When Richard Scruggs is shown flying his Learjet, he gives the plane's tail number as "November six four three.

" Right after that, though, we see an exterior shot of an aircraft with the tail number N6100.

Later, Scruggs, Motley, and Mississippi Attorney General Moore are seen at an airfield walking toward a Learjet with the tail number N550M.

'Lowell Bergman' (qv) didn't quit CBS until 1998, not the morning after the 1996 'Jeffrey Wigand' (qv) interview was shown.

Wigand stands in the hallway at his school in Kentucky as he talks on a pay phone to Scruggs, who is in his office in Louisiana.

Although Louisiana is west of Kentucky, via the window at Scruggs's office, we see the sun has set, yet the hallway at the school is filled with light, indicating the sun is still shining.

In the scene when Wigand is leaving Louisville to testify in Mississippi, the airport shown is not Louisville International Airport; it is John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, CA.

When Wigand is in the Seelbach Hotel on the phone with Bergman, Wigand says that he "can see them (Brown & Williamson) across the street.

" This would have been impossible since the (now former) B&W Tower is located one block north of the hotel (the building across the street from the Seelbach is the National City building).

When Bergman first calls Scruggs (as he's flying his Lear jet), Scruggs calls in to air traffic control saying he's "Lear November 643", yet the external shot of the jet shows the registration number to be N[ovember] 6100".

Then shortly after returning Bergman's call Scruggs walks out to the runway and the jet now has a registration number of "N550M".

In the beginning of the film when Mike Wallace refuses to move his chair away from the Sheik, the translator translates Mike's English into Farsi to the Arabic-speaking Hezbollah.

Farsi and Arabic are not the same language and usually Persians and Arabs do not understand each others' languages, unless they studied it.

When Wigand is returning from Mississippi, his car is shown passing a highway sign saying "Louisville" via Indiana state highway 31, which runs through southern Indiana.

Since Louisville's airport is not in Indiana, there would be no reason for Wigand to be southbound in Indiana heading for Kentucky.

The film concludes with the statement that Jeffery Wigand's harassers were never found.

In fact the FBI investigated thoroughly and concluded that Wigand had faked the alleged death threats himself.

This was mainly due to interviews with Mrs.

Wigand who also believed the threats were faked.

When Bergman goes to Wigan's house for the first time, he covers his head from the rain with a newspaper running a story on the conclusion of the O.

Simpson murder trial (The headline is "Simpson Freed").

The OJ trial only started in November 1994 - long after Wigan was fired in March 1993.

This movie is based on a true story and depicts the two men's fight against the tobacco industry in U.S.

There are some films that are so perfectly made in every way possible that I sit there thinking 'Every persons effort and every element of creative energy that went into making this movie has been implemented flawlessly, arriving here and now to give me the viewing experience I'm getting. A perfect movie'.

Its gr8....commercial...

Michael Mann really loves to dye it white. Great media critic and what it means to risk it all.

My kind of movie. Suspenseful, wonderful acting and a great story line.

Crowe plays a fired Tobacco Company employee whose conscience is burdened by a truth about nicotine everybody already knows. The premise of the film makes zero sense but to its credit, the film is consistent in maintaining its level of stupidity all the way through.

I remember hearing about this story on the news I was in high school . Seems like a long time ago .

Absolutely brilliant movie .With all the crap that's out there .