Silkwood 1983 123movies

Watch: Silkwood 1983 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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..
Plot: 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.
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Ratings:

	7.1/10 Votes: 20,656
	76% | RottenTomatoes
	64/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 264 Popularity: 10.884 | TMDB

Reviews:

America the beautiful
The lives of working class Americans are shamefully under-represented by Hollywood, and when a poor person is depicted (as something other than a criminal), it’s almost always with the subtext of hope and the American dream. But hope isn’t what drives someone, like the real-life Karen Silkwood, to risk her life working with plutonium for the only employer in a company town. Silkwood didn’t find hope, but she did get scared, and angry, and put her job (and those of her colleagues) at stake to uncover dangerous practices before dying a mysterious death. ‘Silkwood’ the movie doesn’t give us the glib conclusions of a conspiracy thriller (it refrains from giving an opinion on her cause of death), but it does give an excellent portrait of life at the bottom, and the mounting sense of claustrophobia and paranoia that accompanied Karen’s perilous voyage of discovery. Meryl Streep does an excellent job in the title role, portraying a woman gradually losing her sanity, and the whole cast is good, even Cher in an unglamorous role. In conclusion, this is a serious and important film; and a reminder for the fortunate how hard, and ugly, life can be, even in the “land of the free”.

Good film lifted by sublime performances
Set in a small rural town in Oklahoma, ‘Silkwood’ (1983) follows Karen Silkwood’s (Meryl Streep) quest to reveal the truth about the local nuclear power plant she works at. Based upon a true story, Karen is killed in a car accident on her way to meet an editor of the New York Times who was going to help her expose the truth. Living with her boyfriend Drew (Kurt Russell) and friend Dolly (Cher), Karen, a technician in the plant, sees her life turned upside down after she tests positive for radiation poisoning. After she is subsequently moved to a different department, Karen quickly becomes suspicious that the company is putting worker’s health at risk in order to fulfill million dollar contracts. A suspicion that ultimately leads to her death. Directed by Mike Nichols, direction for which earned him an Oscar nomination, Silkwood is for the large part a believable, thrilling and touching film. The script by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen is given life by the two lead actresses, Streep and Cher, both of which gained Oscar nominations for their performances for the high amount of depth and humanity exhibited in each of their characters. At times, however the plot seemed to drag slightly, and Kurt Russell was given little room for character development playing the stereotypical southern blue collar worker, but these are minor criticisms. The bigger problem with this film is the structure. As the audience is let known beforehand that Karen will die at some point, the tension that builds quite effectively through the film is wasted somewhat by a anti-climactic end. A problem that seems to undermine many thrillers/dramas that are based upon true stories as the spoiler is given before the film. Nonetheless, Silkwood is a high quality film and Meryl Streep gives yet another Oscar nominated performance (her 5th at the time) and with her co-star Cher they help lift a film that otherwise may have lacked. 7/10

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 11 min (131 min)
Budget 10000000
Revenue 35600000
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Biography, Drama, History
Director Mike Nichols
Writer Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen
Actors Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 5 Oscars. 2 wins & 18 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panaflex Camera and Lenses by Panavision (as Panaflex Camera and Lenses by Panavision)
Laboratory DeLuxe, USA (prints by) (as Deluxe), Technicolor (color by) (as Technicolor®)
Film Length 3,600 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 16 mm (full frame), 35 mm