Silkwood

About 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.

Mike Nichols's Silkwood is a 1983 drama film. At 131 minutes long, it arrived in December 1983.

The film is filed under oklahoma, whistleblower, idealism, and nuclear power plant.

Meryl Streep stars as Karen Silkwood, Kurt Russell as Drew Stephens, Cher as Dolly Pelliker, and Craig T. Nelson as Winston. The screenplay is by Alice Arlen and Nora Ephron.

Snowden, Serpico, and Invictus make useful companions to Silkwood, all filed under fighting the system and idealist. TMDB voters put it at 6.9 out of 10 across 368 votes and it carries a R rating.