Movie Info: Silkwood (1983)

Director: Mike Nichols

Writer: Alice Arlen, Nora Ephron

Producer: Producer: Michael Hausman, Mike Nichols
Executive Producer: Buzz Hirsch, Larry Cano

Genre: Biographical Film, Biography, Drama, History, Lgbt-Related Film, Thriller

The story follows Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep), a metallurgy worker at the Kerr-McGee plutonium processing plant in Oklahoma. After discovering dangerous safety violations and being purposefully contaminated, she decides to blow the whistle on these practices. Throughout the process, she faces psyc...