Dec 9th
Silkwood*   
(US 1983)    
Twentieth Century Fox/ABC. 131m.

Oklahoma nuclear plant worker Karen Silkwood helps uncover negligence by her employers, before she is mysteriously killed in a car crash.
Languid biographical thriller set in blue-collar America, which should be more tense than it is, out of earnest sympathy for its real-life characters.

Written by: Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen, from the book by Howard Kohn.
Producers: Michael Hausman, Mike Nichols.
Director: Mike Nichols.
Starring: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson, Fred Ward, Diana Scarwid, Ron Silver, Josef Sommer, David Strathairn.
Photography: Miroslav Ondricek.
Music: Georges Delerue.