Silkwood
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.
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.
- Year: 1983
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: ABC Motion Pictures
- Keyword: plutonium, staged death, radiation, oklahoma, nuclear radiation, nuclear power plant, idealism, idealist, labor organizer, labor union, workers union, suspicious death, whistleblower, worker's rights, fighting the system, chemical poisoning, radiation exposure, assassinated, illegal waste disposal
- Director: Mike Nichols
- Cast: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson, Fred Ward, Diana Scarwid
