Silkwood
Directors
Mike Nichols
Actors
- Meryl Streep
- Kurt Russell
- Cher
Credits: 12
Summary
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.
More about this movie
Fairly accurate recounting of the story of Karen Silkwood, the Oklahoma nuclear-plant worker who blew the whistle on dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and who died under circumstances which are still under debate.