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The China Syndrome
Why this pick
A tense, grounded nuclear-industry thriller driven by workplace danger, institutional denial, and an ordinary professional forced to decide how far to push for the truth.
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MOVIE1983 2h 11m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Karen Silkwood, a worker at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site (near Crescent, Oklahoma), shares a ramshackle house with two co-workers, her boyfriend Drew Stephens and her Lesbianism friend Dolly Pelliker. She makes plutonium nuclear fuel for nuclear reactors, where she deals with the threat of Ionizing radiation to radiation. She has become a union activist, concerned that corporate practices may adversely affect the health of workers. She is also engaged in a conflict with her former common-law husband in an effort to have more time with their three children.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Meryl Streep
Karen Silkwood
Kurt Russell
Drew Stephens
Fred Ward
Morgan
Cher
Dolly Pelliker
Diana Scarwid
Angela
Craig T. Nelson
Winston
Josef Sommer
Max Richter
Sudie Bond
Thelma Rice