Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Silkwood (1983)


Released January 27th in the US.
Filmed in Texas and New Mexico.
Based on truths.
The story : In Oklahoma City in 1974 , great friends Karen , Dolly and Drew all live together as well as work together at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site plutonium plant in Crescent , Oklahoma.
After sometime , Karen begins worrying about fellow employees as well as herself being exposed to radiation.
Karen believes that the company they are all working for is lying to them and hiding the results of their health risks there.
When Karen begins work on the Oil , Chemical and Atomic Workers Union and starts showing signs of serious activism , the company she works for as well as her fellow employees become really worried.
No one wants to lose their job , including Karen.
But now over and over again while at work Karen is becoming a high radiation danger to everyone around her.
Stars Meryl Streep , Kurt Russell , Cher , Tess Harper , Susan McDaniel , Anthony Fernandez ,Tana Hensley , Fred Ward , Sudie Bond , Ron Silver , E Katherine Kerr , Craig T Nelson , J C Quinn , Diana Scarwid , Josef Sommer , Bruce McGill , Henderson Forsythe , David Strathaim , Kent Broadhurst , Les Lannom , Richard Hamilton , M Emmet Walsh , Ray Baker , Norman Colvin , Gary Grubbs , Betty Harper , Will Patton , Vern Porter , Christopher Saylors , Jim Beaver
Directed  by Mike Nichols
Rated R
BIOGRAPHY/HISTORY/DRAMA/THRILLER

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