Silkwood

"On November 13, 1974, Karen Silkwood, an employee of a nuclear facility, left to meet with a reporter from the New York Times. She never got there."

Jan 27 1984 R 2h 11m
Biography, Drama, History

The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.

Plot

Fairly accurate recounting of the story of Karen Silkwood, the Oklahoma nuclear-plant worker who blew the whistle on dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and who died under circumstances which are still under debate.

Written by

Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen

Directed by

Mike Nichols

Cast

Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

ABC Pictures

Languages

English

Awards

Nominated for 5 Oscars. 2 wins & 19 nominations total

Trailers
Silkwood Official Trailer #1 - Meryl Streep Movie (1983) HD
Scores
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Average Rating
7.1 out of 10
Metascore
65
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