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    Silkwood is a 1983 American biographical drama film directed by Mike Nichols, and starring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, and Cher. The screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen was adapted from the book Who Killed Karen Silkwood? by Rolling Stone writer and activist Howard Kohn, which detailed the life of Karen Silkwood, a nuclear whistle-blower ...

  2. 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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    • Biography, Drama, History
    • Mike Nichols
    • 1984-01-27
  3. Silkwood is 4803 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 188 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than Emma but less popular than Paycheck.

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    • Mike Nichols
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  4. A movie about a nuclear worker who challenges the company and the union, played by Meryl Streep. Roger Ebert praises the performances and the human story, but leaves the mystery of her death unanswered.

  5. Release Date (DVD) Oct 7, 2003. Runtime. 2h 11m. This drama is based on the true story of Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep), who works at a nuclear facility, along with her boyfriend, Drew Stephens ...

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    • Mike Nichols
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    • Meryl Streep
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  8. 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. Karen's whistle blower efforts as a union activist to reveal Kerr- McGee's possible radiation poisoning of its employees ended tragically.

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