Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highly radioactive plutonium. Exposed one day to a lethal dose of radiation, Karen faces the blank walls of corporate indifference and denial. As her illness increases, her protest grows louder and she becomes an obvious danger to the powers that be.
Silkwood has generally received positive reviews.
Review of Silkwood (1983)
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Review of Silkwood (1983)
By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 31 May 1989
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Silkwood was released in 1983 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 210 reviews, giving Silkwood (1983) an average rating of 73%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 80%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 74%.
With a score of 73%, Silkwood is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1983, which stands at 58%.
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