The Insider Movie Details
The Insider taglines:Warning: Exposing the Truth May Be Hazardous
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| IMDB Rating: 8.0/10 out of 65,060 votes |
“The Insider” 1999 by Michael Mann – Movie Goofs
“The Insider” Plot Summary
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a “60 Minutes” expose on Big Tobacco.
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“The Insider” Goofs List
- Revealing mistakes: On two separate occasions Bergman gets in a cab in New York and both times it is the same cab, the numbers on the roof and door are the same. The odds of this happening are slight, since there are 11,787 yellow cabs in New York.
- Errors in geography: 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.
- Anachronisms: 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.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: 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.
- Continuity: 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.
- Crew or equipment visible: On one occasion when Bergman receives a phone call from Jeffrey Wigand, a crewmember’s face is reflected in the window behind him.
- Continuity: 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.
- Continuity: 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.
- Continuity: 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.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the scene of the interview with the sheik, Mike Wallace 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.
- Continuity: 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.
- Anachronisms: Lowell Bergman didn’t quit CBS until 1998, not the morning after the 1996 Jeffrey Wigand interview was shown.
- Errors in geography: 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.
- Errors in geography: In the scene when Wigand is leaving Louisville to testify in Mississippi, the airport shown is not Louisville International Airport.
- Factual errors: During the scene where the tobacco company is trying to smear Wigand, the television reporter says that “WLKO in Louisville” had discovered something on him. There is no such television station in Louisville (though, there is a WLKY).
- Factual errors: 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.
- Continuity: When Lowell Bergman has an argument with Jeffrey Wigand 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.
- Revealing mistakes: 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.
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