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Silkwood
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.
1983 · Directed by Mike Nichols · 131 min · Drama · 26 frames
Tagline
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.
Crew
- Written by: Alice Arlen, Nora Ephron
- Cinematography: Miroslav Ondříček
- Edited by: Sam O'Steen
- Music: Georges Delerue
- Production design: Patrizia von Brandenstein
- Produced by: Mike Nichols, Michael Hausman
Cast
- Meryl Streep as Karen Silkwood
- Kurt Russell as Drew Stephens
- Cher as Dolly Pelliker
- Craig T. Nelson as Winston
- Fred Ward as Morgan
- Diana Scarwid as Angela
- Ron Silver as Paul Stone
- Charles Hallahan as Earl Lapin
- Josef Sommer as Max Richter
- Sudie Bond as Thelma Rice
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: ABC Motion Pictures
- Budget: $10,000,000
- Box office: $35,616,970
- Themes: plutonium, staged death, radiation, oklahoma, nuclear radiation, nuclear power plant, idealism, idealist, labor organizer, labor union
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