Please help me remember the name of a movie

[baby_bear]

A true story about a woman whistle-blower at a nuclear power plant who gets killed under suspicious circumstances.

It's driving me nuts...

thanks
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[brainshrub]

1. Silkwood (1983)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086312/

Tagline: 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.

Plot Outline: The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.



Directed by:
Mike Nichols

[expatriot]

2. Kerr-McGee..... grrr.......... nt

[baby_bear]

6. As a matter of fact, Kerr McGee is why I was asking

They are involved in a current environmental debacle over perchlorate, a rocket propellant chemical that is contaminating ground water, lettuce, milk, etc., in California and many other states.

I started thinking about the movie and wanted to make sure my memory was correct, that it was Kerr McGee that was the employer.

Yup.

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[expatriot]

7. fyi... one of their board of directors is the President of Purdue

they have their fingers heavily in getting free research done by taxpayer supported land grant universities.... he used to be the president of ISU when I was a student there and wrote a number of exposes on his corporate dealings.


Martin Jischke

[baby_bear]

5. Of course! Thanks!

I didn't realize it was directed by Mike Nichols.

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[ET Awful]

3. Silkwood, excellent film

Starring Meryl Streep, Cher, etc.

Great movie.

[autorank]

4. And if you liked that, try "Shattered Glass"