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.
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- Drama
- Thriller
Overview
Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highly radioactive plutonium. Exposed one day to a lethal dose of radiation, Karen faces the blank walls of corporate indifference and denial. As her illness increases, her protest grows louder and she becomes an obvious danger to the powers that be.
Keywords
- plutonium
- radiation
- labor union
- idealism
- idealist
- whistleblower
- fighting the system
- research
- nuclear radiation
- oklahoma
- nuclear power plant
- staged death
- suspicious death
- labor organizer
- worker's rights
- workers union
- radiation exposure
- chemical poisoning
- assassinated
- illegal waste disposal
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 14, 1983
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- ABC Pictures,ABC Motion Pictures
- Cast
- Meryl Streep,Kurt Russell,Cher,Craig T. Nelson,Fred Ward,Diana Scarwid,Ron Silver,Charles Hallahan,Josef Sommer,Sudie Bondand 19 more
- Director
- Mike Nichols
- Writer
- Alice Arlen,Nora Ephron
- Cinematography
- Miroslav Ondříček
- Music
- Georges Delerue
- Budget
- $10,000,000
- Revenue
- $35,616,970
- IMDb
- tt0086312