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Silkwood
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5 Nominations
Year 1983
Director Mike Nichols
Writer Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen
Starring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russel, Cher, Craig T. Nelson, Fred Ward
56th Academy Awards

Silkwood is a 1983 drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen was inspired by the true story of Karen Silkwood.

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A recounting of the true story of Karen Silkwood, the Oklahoma nuclear-power plant worker who blew the whistle on dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and who died under cirumcumstances which are still under debate.

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