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Silkwood 1983
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.
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Mike Nichols
Writer: Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen
Cast: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher
Released: 27 Jan 1984
Runtime: 131 min
Language: English
Country: United States
A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant.
Awards
Nominated for 5 Oscars. 2 wins & 19 nominations total
Box Office
$35,615,609
Ratings
Internet Movie Database
7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes
77%
Metacritic
65/100
Metascore
65/100
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