# Silkwood (1983)

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**Runtime**: 131 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Mike Nichols
**Written by**: Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen
**Starring**: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson, Fred Ward, Diana Scarwid

> *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.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Nuclear-plant whistleblower meets microcosm. After a near-fatal dose forces an all-night line-in protest she turns the company’s toxicity against itself. A stubborn Kirkland stands her ground to the end.

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