1983 · drama · biography · thriller
Silkwood
Directed by Mike Nichols2h 11m1983
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.
Our read: Silkwood (1983) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · biography · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured drama / biography, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
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