apparently and when silkwood come out and mike nichols hadn not release a notable movie since the fortune nearly kill his career eight year earlier . if we call this his comeback and then it be sure a good comeback . don one of her many accent from over the year in this case oklahoman meryl streep play karen silkwood and a plutonium processing plant employee who seek to expose the dangerous condition in her workplace . and mysteriously die in a car wreck . this be the sort of opportunity to be idiotically preachy and but the movie never degenerate into that . it show how the plant owner poison her and psychologically berate her . this bring to mind the overall issue of how the nuclear age affect the whole planet . nuclear test by both the u and ussr leave the whole world irradiate . nuclear power may be discredit and but apparently no person on earth have escape nuclear fallout . so much for progress . all in all and silkwood be a really good movie . it surprising to see kurt russell and cher ( a karen roommates draw stephen and dolly pelliker ) in this sort of movie while we associate him with kick as role and her with treacly role . but they do a very good job . also star craig t. nelson and diana scarwid and fred ward and ron silver and and bruce mcgill .