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Silkwood

Silkwood

1983 · Movie · 2h 11m · R

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."

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.

Ratings
IMDb
7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes
78%
Metacritic
65/100
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Themes
plutoniumstaged deathradiationoklahomanuclear radiationnuclear power plantidealismidealistlabor organizerlabor unionworkers unionsuspicious death