Silkwood is a 1983 American drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen was inspired by the true-life story of Karen Silkwood, who died in a suspicious car accident while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked.
Karen Silkwood, a hard-living metallurgy worker at the Kerr-McGee plant in Cimarron, Oklahoma, shares a ramshackle house with two co-workers, her boyfriend...
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Silkwood is a 1983 American drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen was inspired by the true-life story of Karen Silkwood, who died in a suspicious car accident while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked.
Karen Silkwood, a hard-living metallurgy worker at the Kerr-McGee plant in Cimarron, Oklahoma, shares a ramshackle house with two co-workers, her boyfriend Drew Stephens and her lesbian friend Dolly Pelliker. In addition to working tedious hours making plutonium fuel rods for nuclear reactors and dealing with the constant threat of exposure to radiation, her time is consumed by an ongoing battle waged against her former common law husband in an effort to have more time with their three children. In the little leisure time she has, she enjoys drinking and indulging in recreational drug use.
Because the plant has fallen behind on a major contract, employees are required to work long hours of...
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