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- 1983
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 2 h 11 m
- 1983
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 2 h 11 m
Summary Karen Silkwood (Streep), a nuclear plant worker strives to expose the safety violations at her workplace.
Directed By: Mike Nichols
Written By: Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen
- 1983
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 2 h 11 m
- 1983
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 2 h 11 m
Silkwood
64
8.4
Summary Karen Silkwood (Streep), a nuclear plant worker strives to expose the safety violations at her workplace.
Directed By: Mike Nichols
Written By: Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
64
80% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
10% Mixed
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10% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
64
80% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
10% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
10% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Fueled by Meryl Streep's performance in the title role, energized by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen's script and tempered by Mike Nichols' understated direction, Silkwood is a brilliant movie that puts art above polemics, and the facts above speculation. [14 Dec 1983]
That could have been a good movie, but predictable. Mike Nichols' Silkwood is not predictable.... We realize this is a lot more movie than perhaps we were expecting.
Silkwood is a very moving work about the raising of the consciousness of one woman of independence, guts and sensitivity.
Wonderful performances steal the show in this film based on the real life of Karen Silkwood, a worker in a plutonium factory in Oklahoma, whose health and safety concerns prompt her public exposure of the company's practices which, in turn, lead to dire personal consequences.
Little remains in this true-life story of a nuclear worker's mysterious death other than some prefab antinuke, profeminist rhetoric - soft-pedaled, thankfully, but still strong enough to testify to the basic smugness of the project.
There is none of the affectionate respect for working-class life and values that marked the similar, and far superior, "Norma Rae," nor any of that film's sense of felt reality either.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 29 User Ratings
8.4
90% Positive
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User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 29 User Ratings
8.4
90% Positive
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
7% Mixed
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3% Negative
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Production Company
ABC Motion Pictures,
ABC Motion Pictures
Release Date Dec 14, 1983
Duration 2 h 11 m
Rating R
Tagline The controversial true story that inflamed a nation.
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Academy Awards, USA
• 5 Nominations
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
• 3 Nominations
