Power Up Now Movie Night: Silkwood (1983)

Power Up Now presents Silkwood for one night only at Eclipse Cinema in Collingwood on Friday, October 16th at 6:30pm.

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.

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 stars Meryl Streep as the film's heroine alongside Kurt Russell as her rough but loving boyfriend and Cher as her butch lesbian "roommate". Directed by Mike Nichols (The Bird Cage, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Graduate). Written by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen.

Karen Silkwood's story was featured in Power Up Now.

Silkwood (1983)

Starring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell and Cher

Directed by Mike Nichols

Written by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen

Run time 131 minutes

Snacks and beverages will be for sale at concession.

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