Silkwood

Titolo originale: Silkwood
Regia: Mike Nichols |
Anno: 1983
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma Thriller
Tag: research | plutonium | radiation | oklahoma | nuclear power plant | idealism | idealist | fighting the system |
Cast: Meryl Streep | Kurt Russell | Cher | Craig T. Nelson | Fred Ward | Diana Scarwid | Ron Silver | Charles Hallahan | Josef Sommer | Sudie Bond | Henderson Forsythe | E. Katherine Kerr | Bruce McGill | David Strathairn | J.C. Quinn | Kent Broadhurst | Richard Hamilton | Les Lannom | M. Emmet Walsh | Graham Jarvis | James Rebhorn | Bill Cobbs | Ray Baker | Will Patton | Tom Stovall | Drew Stephens | Tess Harper | Anthony Heald | Gary Grubbs |

Ispirato ad una storia vera. 1974. Le disfunzioni della fabbrica nucleare devono restare segreti. A qualsiasi costo.Karen Silkwood lavora in una fabbrica di materiale atomico. Dopo aver constatato la contaminazione di un collega, viene trasferita ad altro incarico. Karen entra nel sindacato e inizia a denunciare le irregolarità che si verificano nell'azienda. Sul lavoro viene ben presto isolata e, per di più, resta contaminata. Quando sta per rilasciare un'intervista a un giornalista del New York Times, Karen muore in un misterioso incidente. Nichols si rifà a un fatto di cronaca avvenuto nel 1974, per questa denuncia dei rischi legati all'energia atomica e alle speculazioni che ci ruotano attorno. Ma il film si ricorda anzitutto per la prova superlativa di Meryl Streep.

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This is the only time that Mike Nichols was nominated for a Best Director Oscar in a non-Best Pictur [...] D
Executive producers Larry Cano and Buzz Hirsch started working on the picture when they were graduat [...] D
The film includes three Oscar winners: Mike Nichols, Meryl Streep, and Cher; and three Oscar nominee [...] D
First major feature film (excluding the concert documentary Gilda Live (1980)) for Mike Nichols in e [...] D
Cher and Diana Scarwid would star together again, 13 years later, in If These Walls Could Talk. D
Lily Tomlin auditioned for the role of Dolly. D
The main character of the fiction novel "Sysco, the Worst Disaster Ever Created", was based on Karen [...] D
It was this film and the previous year's Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982) that introduced Cher as a ser [...] D
In the scene where the plant workers are listening to the Union doctor's speech about cancer, and Wi [...] D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Most [...] D
In an interview with Joan Rivers on The Tonight Show Cher said she was shocked when she was approach [...] D
First of four films that Meryl Streep and Mike Nichols have made together. The movies include Silkwo [...] D
Meryl Streep and Cher got along well with Kurt Russell, whom Cher described as "like a bossy big bro [...] D
The name and location of the plutonium plant that Karen Silkwood worked for was the Kerr-McGee Cimar [...] D
Both Cher and Meryl Streep received Oscar nominations for this film though nominated in separate cat [...] D
Karen Silkwood is buried in an East Texas cemetery. A few years ago a local television reporter paid [...] D
Movie posters for the film featured a preamble that read: "On November 13, 1974, Karen Silkwood, an [...] D
Cher & Meryl Streep have stated in interviews that they both were secretly nervous about performing [...] D
An autopsy of Karen Silkwood's body found plutonium contamination in several organs. A civil court c [...] D
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The movie is based on a true story. The picture was released nine years after the events depicted in [...] D
The movie was nominated for five Academy Awards, but failed to win any. D
First of three films that Meryl Streep and Nora Ephron have made together. The movies include Silkwo [...] D
Despite Karen's fame after her death for her activism, her three children never fully got over her l [...] D
Meryl Streep only had two-and-a-half weeks off between completing filming on La scelta di Sophie (19 [...] D
When Karen Silkwood's real-life boyfriend at the time, Drew Stephens, saw the film, he was very move [...] D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Ameri [...] D
When the film was in post-production, Mike Nichols and editor Sam O'Steen ran into a problem regardi [...] D
This film's epilogue says, "The precise circumstances of Karen's death are unknown. It is also not k [...] D
This movie would represent the first of 3 different pairings of Cher and Meryl Streep. They were in [...] D
The third of three films released in successive years for which Meryl Streep was nominated for the B [...] D
One of the first feature films of Tess Harper, who also appeared in Amityville III (1983) and Un ten [...] D
Reportedly, the production of this film set a legal precedent in the U.S. Supreme Court regarding th [...] D
According to Nora Ephron, Meryl Streep's friendship with Cher helped create a fun mood on the set in [...] D
In an interview with "Entertainment Weekly", Mike Nichols said that this film was "the beginning of [...] D
The one scene that was particularly difficult for Meryl Streep was the one in which Karen flashes he [...] D
Debut feature film screenplay (co-written) for Nora Ephron. D
David Strathairn, who shared scenes with Meryl Streep, would play her husband in The River Wild (199 [...] D
The scene where Karen sets off the radiation alarms actually happened. Her level of contamination wa [...] D
One of the first major tasks that Cher had to tackle when she arrived on location was to find the ri [...] D
Cher directed and starred in If These Walls Could Talk (1996) with Diana Scarwid, who played her gir [...] D
On meeting Cher for the first time, Meryl Streep said, "I was already in the mindset of 'My friend i [...] D
Jane Fonda, who had recently starred in the thematically related movie Sindrome cinese (1979), once [...] D
Cher was warned not to wear any make-up at all. "Mike would give me the white-glove test," said Cher [...] D
In an interview with "American Film", Meryl Streep said of Karen Silkwood, "she wasn't Joan of Arc a [...] D
The film was part of a 1980s cycle of films about atomic bombs and nuclear warfare. The films includ [...] D
The scenes that take place in Los Alamos are all interior scenes. There are no recognizable shots of [...] D
Cher was nervous about meeting Meryl Streep for the first time. "I thought it was going to be like h [...] D
Karen Silkwood's parents and former roommate Sherri Ellis were unhappy with the film. Her father bel [...] D
De-glamorizing herself was difficult for Cher, who had made her career on a trademark style of being [...] D
Cher's comfort with playing Dolly was helped tremendously by Meryl Streep taking the time to put her [...] D