Silkwood

Name: Silkwood
Director: Mike Nichols
Genre: Drama
Released: 1983-12-14
Duration: 2 h 11 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson, Fred Ward

“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.”

6.9

1983

2h 11m

Drama

Director: Mike Nichols

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.