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MOVIE ’ REVIEW

"SILKWOOD"

In her first film since her Academy Award-winning

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The most prestigious actress of her time, Meryl

performance in "Sophie’s Streep has been dazzling Choice", Meryl Streep stars filmgoers with the variety in the title role of and intensity of her "Silkwood," an ABC Motion 'performances since her Pictures” presentation of a motion picture debut as a

Mike Nichols film set for society girl in a brief release December 7 in New sequence of "Julia."

York and December 16

throughout the country by Her subsequent role in

20th Century-Fox.

"Silkwood" is based on the perosonal and

"The Deer Hunter" as Christopher Waklen's girlfriend won her the National Society of Film

professional struggles of Critics Award for Best Karen Silkwood, who died in Supporting actress and her a mysterious car crash in first Academy Award 197a while she was nomination. She then attempting to expose the appeared in "Manhatten" as

dangers in the plutonium plant in which she worked.

Also starring with Meryl Streep are Kurt Russell as Drew Stephens and

Woody Allen’s ex-wife, in "The Seduction of Joe Tynan" as Alan Alda"s extramarital romance, and as the woman who left Dustin Hoffman in "Kramer vs. Kramer," which

Cher as Dolly Pelliker. In earned her virtually every a highly anticipated return major honor for best to dramatic filmmaking after supporting actress, eight years of stage including the Academy Award, activity, Academy and Tony a Golden Globe and awards Award winner Mike Nichols from the National Board of

directs from an original screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen. Co—starring in "Silkwood" are Diana Scarwid, Craig T. Nelson, Ron Silver and Fred Ward.

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Critics ,and the National Society of Film Critics.

Streep’s first lead in

"The French Woman" was by no means an

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Nichols and Michael her with the challenge of ' Hausman are producers, with playing the dual role of M O v I E 5 Buzz Hirsch and Larry Cano modern-day actress Anna, as serving as executive well as her Victorian producers. Academy Award counterpart, the enigmatic nominees Miroslav Ondricek Sarah Woodruff. . and Patrizia von Thechallenge paid off ‘with F r Id a y Brandenstein ("Ragtime") unequivocal praise and an ‘ .

were the director of photography and production designer, respectively. Ann Roth designed the costumes, and Oscar winner Georges Delerue ("A Little Romance")

Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

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