What is Silkwood / Heartburn about?

Double Feature: SILKWOOD, 1983, Disney, 131 min. Director Mike Nichols and screenwriter Nora Ephron based this gripping drama on the life of Oklahoma nuclear plant worker Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep), who blew the whistle on the dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and then died in a suspicious car accident. With Kurt Russell and Cher. HEARTBURN, 1986, Paramount, 1986, 108 min. Dir. Mike Nichols. Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson star in Nora Ephron’s thinly veiled autobiographical look at the disintegration of her marriage to Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein. New York Magazine food columnist Rachel (Streep) thinks she has the perfect marriage to fellow writer Mark (Nicholson), until she discovers in the midst of her second pregnancy that he is having an affair.

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What is Silkwood / Heartburn about?: Double Feature: SILKWOOD, 1983, Disney, 131 min. Director Mike Nichols and screenwriter Nora Ephron based this gripping drama on the life of Oklahoma nuclear plant worker Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep), who blew the whistle on the dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and then died in a suspicious car accident. With Kurt Russell and Cher.
HEARTBURN, 1986, Paramount, 1986, 108 min. Dir. Mike Nichols. Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson star in Nora Ephron’s thinly veiled autobiographical look at the disintegration of her marriage to Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein. New York Magazine food columnist Rachel (Streep) thinks she has the perfect marriage to fellow writer Mark (Nicholson), until she discovers in the midst of her second pregnancy that he is having an affair.