National Review, March 23rd, 1984
Silkwood
THERE ARE very serious problems with Silkwood. As I keep having to say, you shouldn't make biographical films about contemporary persons unless you know the facts and are in a position to tell them. This, however, is very rarely the case, and the films fall on their behinds between fact and fiction. Individuals from the distant past are fair game: The filmmaker can tell the known facts and then conjecture away to his heart's content. What about Karen Silkwood, though, the young woman from Texas who worked in a Kerr-McGee nuclear-fuel plant in Oklahoma, led a fairly loose life, beca...
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