If you loved Silkwood, try Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Mike Nichols, and they both carry the gut punch, raw mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Silkwood, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is
A New England living room, autumn evening, whiskey glasses clinking. A history professor and his wife verbally spar, a young couple watches, caught in the crossfire. Nichols expertly exposes the toxicity beneath the wit.

