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Silkwood

19832h 11mDrama
directed by Mike Nichols

“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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6.9 / 10
357 votes
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7.1 / 10
23,764 votes
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65 / 100
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78%

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Synopsis

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.

Cast

Meryl Streep·Karen Silkwood
Kurt Russell·Drew Stephens
Cher·Dolly Pelliker
Craig T. Nelson·Winston
Fred Ward·Morgan
Diana Scarwid·Angela
Ron Silver·Paul Stone
Charles Hallahan·Earl Lapin
Josef Sommer·Max Richter
Sudie Bond·Thelma Rice