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.
Title | Silkwood |
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Year | 1983 |
Genre | Drama, Thriller |
Country | United States of America |
Studio | ABC Motion Pictures |
Cast | Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson, Fred Ward, Diana Scarwid |
Crew | Mike Nichols (Director), Nora Ephron (Screenplay), Alice Arlen (Screenplay), Larry Cano (Executive Producer), Michael Hausman (Producer), Buzz Hirsch (Executive Producer) |
Keyword | research, plutonium, radiation, oklahoma, nuclear power plant, idealism, idealist, fighting the system |
Release | Dec 14, 1983 |
Runtime | 131 minutes |
Quality | HD |
IMDb | 6.90 / 10 by 315 users |
Popularity | 8 |
Budget | 10,000,000 |
Revenue | 35,600,000 |
Language | English |