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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Letterboxed • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 14 December, 1983 DVD Release : 07 October, 2003 |
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Silkwood description Based on the harrowing account of whistle blower Karen Silkwood, this 1983 film directed by Mike Nichols (The Graduate, Postcards from the Edge) is as much a character study of a woman galvanized by injustice as a story of the dangers of nuclear power and the extremes of corporate greed. When Karen discovers unsafe conditions and reckless protocol at the plant where she works, her actions in uncovering the dangers that lie at the plant not only cause a rift between her and her lover (Kurt Russell) and her best friend (Cher), but they threaten her very life. Streep gives yet another bravura performance as a wild child in Oklahoma forced to confront the harsh realities of her life, and the supporting cast, from Cher to Russell to Diana Scarwid is first rate. This true story of the woman who disappeared under mysterious circumstances while trying to find the truth is a well-told, challenging, and emotionally complex tale. --Robert Lane |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | A sad movie, but very good too. |
| This movie is a documentary of the story of Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep), who was a whistleblower that was contaminated with plutonium radiation at the Kerr-McGee nuclear plant in Oklahoma, where she worked. She lived with 2 friends Dolly Pelliker(Cher), and Drew Stephens(Kurt Russell). She lived a free happy life, until she found out that she was exposed to plutonium and how toxic it was for the body. Then, one November evening, in the dead of the night, she went to deliver important documents to the New York times, and was killed in a car crash. She was only 28 years old. Some people even think that the car crash was caused by somebody forcing her off the road. The even sadder part of the story is, that, had she lived, Ms. Silkwood had a very good likelyhood of developing lung cancer due to all the plutonium she was contaminated with. Although she was not alive during my lifetime, she was someone I will always admire. Karen, make sure you save me a seat at the bar. | |
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