Silkwood
(1983)
December 14, 1983
(US)
•
Drama
• 131m
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.
Keywords
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
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Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$10,000,000
Revenue
$35,616,970
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