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Silkwood (1983)

Movie"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."
Audience Score
70
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R 2 hr 11 minDec 14th, 1983Drama, Thriller
The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.
StarringMeryl StreepKurt RussellCher
DirectorMike Nichols

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:December 14th, 1983
On DVD & Blu-ray:June 15th, 1999 - Buy DVD
Movie Budget:$10,000,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$35,600,000 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Buzz Hirsch, Larry Cano
Production Companies:ABC Motion Pictures
Movie Tags:
researchoklahomaradiationnuclear power plantidealismidealistfighting the systemplutonium