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Silkwood (1983)

Silkwood (1983)

Drama

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.

Release Date: 1983, December 14
Directors: Mike Nichols
Countries: United States of America
Production: ABC Motion Pictures
Cast: Meryl Streep, David Strathairn, Gary Grubbs, Kurt Russell, Kent Broadhurst, M. Emmet Walsh, James Rebhorn, Craig T. Nelson, Ray Baker, Tess Harper, Graham Jarvis, Charles Hallahan

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.

Keywords:

radiation idealism oklahoma nuclear radiation labor union idealist fighting the system whistleblower nuclear power plant plutonium staged death worker's rights workers union suspicious death labor organizer chemical poisoning assassinated radiation exposure illegal waste disposal