Silkwood | Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell | Silkwood: One Of The Best

Silkwood | Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell | as good as film gets

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Silkwood

	Silkwood Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell MGM (Video & DVD), 2003 average customer review:based on 41 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Meryl Streep is stunning (The New York Times) in this shocking true story about one woman's struggle against a huge corporation. Nominated* for five Academy AwardsÂ(r), including Best Actress (Streep) and Best Supporting Actress (Cher), this daring, provocative and critically acclaimed drama just 'shouldn't be missed (Newsweek)! Karen Silkwood (Streep) lives a free-spirited existence with two friends (Kurt Russell and Cher) who work with her at an Oklahoma nuclear facility. It's only when she discovers she's been exposed to radiation that Karen's conscience awakens, and soon she is digging for evidence of wrongdoing at her company. But her sudden zeal for safer working conditions may come at a high price as she alienates friends and possibly even puts herown life in peril.

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Silkwood: One Of The Best

Wonderful intriguing movie. Makes you wonder and Think, like a good movie should. I hope Mike Nichols decides to do a movie on the 2008 Presidential Primary race: how Hillary Clinton received more votes than any of her rivals, and more votes than any Presidential Primary candidate in History. Base it on the report Primary versus Caucus by Peniel Cronin.

as good as film gets

the cast, the director, the story, the editor, everthing is at its best... more films like this please.

Radiant Movie about Radiation

"Silkwood" was Meryl Streep's breakthrough movie. It's no surprise why. Streep radiates class and determination as whistleblower Karen Silkwood. She brings conviction to her role, carrying the film. Though the movie's coda claims that Silkwood died under "unknown circumstances",one still wonders if there was a conspiracy afoot.

"Silkwood" is also a human story. Kurt Russell is excellent as Silkwood's on-again,off-again,and frequently shirtless lover Drew (this helps,since the plot slows down several times) Cher shines as Silkwood's lesbian friend Dolly. Craig T. Nelson is a convincing villain.

"Silkwood" tells an inspirational, chilling story. While it is slow at points, the acting and production is excellent. It's a timeless classic of courage and conviction.

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"THE BEST LABORATORY SAFETY MOVIE EVER MADE"

If marketed to businesses to use as a training film, "Silkwood" could get all sorts of industrial safety film awards including the honor of being the first industrial training film in which:

A) Three famous actors team up to teach us radiation safety,
B) Cher plays a Dyke,
C) Meryl Streep pulls a "Janet Jackson" and we get to see her boob for a split second,
D) Kurt Russell's talent for dry humor is wasted; e.g. in the bedroom scene where he is consoling the radioactive Meryl Streep he does NOT say "Of course I still love you, you were hot the day I met you and you still are."

+1 star for acting; +1 star for lab safety; +1 star for telling the nasty truth; -1 star for the clothes, sets and overall look-and-feel (thank goodness the 1970s are over); -1 star for being boring and angst-ridden with an anorexic plot.

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