In the face of big companies/money, P's helplessness, the whole film is full of aggrieved feelings, once thought that the male lead committed suicide
Whose life, if you look at it under a microscope, doesn't have any flaws???
The ending is acceptable, but among the tens of thousands of people, there are only a handful of successful cases. Subsequent to the events dramatized here, the tobacco industry in 1998 settled the lawsuits filed against it by Mississippi and 49 other states for $246 billion.
Athough based on a true story, certain events in this motion picture have been fictionalized for dramatic effect.
The source of the death threats against the Wigands never was identified and on one ever was charged or prosecuted. In 1996 Dr. Wigand was named Teacher of the year in Kentucky.
Currently, he lives in South Carolina.
Lowell Bergman is a corrrespondent for the PBS Frontine and is on the faculty of the graduate school of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.
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