Silkwood (1983)

Storyline

Fairly accurate recounting of the story of Karen Silkwood, the Oklahoma nuclear-plant worker who blew the whistle on dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and who died under circumstances which are still under debate. Silkwood, the 1983 Mike Nichols (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award) nuclear plant cover-up conspiracy crime melodrama (“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.”; “Written By Nora Ephron & Alice Arlen”) starring Meryl Streep (in her nominated for Best Actress Academy Award title role), Kurt Russell, Cher (in her nominated for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award role), Craig T. Nelson, Diana Scarwid, and Fred Ward