Silkwood
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.
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.
- Director
- Mike Nichols
- Worldwide
- $36M
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Cast
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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.
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Box Office & Release
Silkwood returned 3.6× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $10M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $36M
- Release date
- Dec 14, 1983
- Runtime
- 2h 11m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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