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Silkwood

Silkwood

Dec 14, 1983
131 min
DramaThriller
6.9/ 10
336 votes

Overview

A plutonium processing plant worker is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured, and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing safety violations.

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TMDB
6.9/10
336 votes
IMDB
7.1/10
23,764 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
77%
Tomatometer
Metacritic
M
65/100
Metascore

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Box Office & Budget

Budget$10,000,000Production cost
Box Office$35,616,970Worldwide gross
Profit$25,616,970Profitable
ROI
+256.2%Return on investment
US Box Office$35,615,609Domestic earnings

Awards & Nominations

Nominated for 5 Oscars. 2 wins & 19 nominations total

Details

Production information

"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."

Status

Released

Original Language

en

Budget

$10,000,000

Revenue

$35,616,970

Production Companies

ABC Motion Pictures

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