Silkwood

"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."

The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.

Release Date

December 14, 1983

Status

Released

Original Title

Silkwood

Runtime

2h 11min

Budget

$10,000,000

Revenue

$35,600,000

Language

English

Production Companies

ABC Motion Pictures