The 1999 Russell Crowe film "The Insider" concerns a whistle-blower in what industry?

"The Insider" is a 1999 American drama film directed by Michael Mann, from a script adapted by Eric Roth and Mann from Marie Brenner's Vanity Fair article "The Man Who Knew Too Much". The film stars Al Pacino and Russell Crowe. A fictionalized account of a true story, it is based on the 60 Minutes segment about Jeffrey Wigand, a whistle-blower in the tobacco industry, covering the personal struggles of him and CBS producer Lowell Bergman as they defend his testimony against efforts to discredit and suppress it by CBS and Wigand's former employer.

With a budget set at $68 million, Mann began collecting a massive amount of documents to research the events depicted in the film: depositions, news reports and 60 Minutes transcripts. He had read a screenplay that Eric Roth had written, called "The Good Shepherd", about the first 25 years of the CIA. Based on this script, Mann approached Roth to help him co-write "The Insider". Mann and Roth wrote several outlines together and talked about the structure of the story.

"The Insider" was released in 1,809 theaters on November 5, 1999 where it grossed a total of $6,712,361 on its opening weekend and ranked fourth in the country for that time period. It went on to make $29.1 million in North America and $31.2 million in the rest of the world for a total of $60.3 million worldwide, significantly lower than its $90 million budget. The film was considered to be a commercial disappointment.