A scientist is fired from his job with a tobacco company, and agrees to expose his former employers' secrets to a journalist - including the allegation that the company had deliberately increased the addictive quality of cigarettes. Michael Mann's fact-based drama, starring Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora and Philip Baker Hall.

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.