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Director: Mike Nichols

Release Date: 13 April 1984

Tagline: 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.

Main Cast:

Meryl Streep … Karen Silkwood

Kurt Russell … Drew Stephens

Cher … Dolly Pelliker

Silkwood is based on the true story of Karen Silkwood, a chemical technician at the Kerr-McGee nuclear power plant in Oklahoma, USA who was contaminated with plutonium and died in a car crash in mysterious circumstances.

The acting is very good all round and Meryl Streep is, as usual, brilliant. The film concentrates on just telling the story. It never degenerates into preachy moralising, and does not attempt to provide any answers.

Wikipedia has some very good information on Karen Silkwood, and can be found here:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Silkwood

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