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Silkwood is a 1983 American biographical drama film directed by Mike Nichols, and starring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, and Cher.
Jan 27, 1984 · Silkwood: Directed by Mike Nichols. With Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson. 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.
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- 1984-01-27
Dec 11, 2006 · The taut Mike Nichols drama Silkwood (1983) was based on the real life case of a plutonium processing plant metallurgy worker, Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep), who discovered corporate powers were covering up radiation leaks at Oklahoma's Kerr-McGee plant.
- Mike Nichols
- Susan Mcdaniel
Karen Silkwood was a real person, living through the HORROR of a job at a nuclear plant, where the management cared much more about profits than it did about the precious lives of...
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- Meryl Streep
Oct 5, 2012 · 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 ...
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Silkwood (1983) by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen is an historical drama about a 28-year-old plutonium processing worker, "Karen Silkwood" (Meryl Streep), who aligns with the Union to secretly gather evidence of Kerr-McGee plant's safety violations.
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This story focuses on the private and professional life of Karen Silkwood (1946 - 1974) portrayed by Merryl Streep, who became a whistle-blower to expose the illegal and dangerous practices of one Oklahoma nuclear plant where she worked as a technician.
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