Silkwood (1983)

  • R
  • 12/14/1983 (US)
  • Drama, Thriller
  • 2h 11m

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.

Overview

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.

Mike Nichols

Director

Nora Ephron

Screenplay

Alice Arlen

Screenplay

Cast

Meryl Streep's headshot

Meryl Streep

Karen Silkwood
Kurt Russell's headshot

Kurt Russell

Drew Stephens
Cher's headshot

Cher

Dolly Pelliker
Craig T. Nelson's headshot

Craig T. Nelson

Winston
Fred Ward's headshot

Fred Ward

Morgan
Diana Scarwid's headshot

Diana Scarwid

Angela
Ron Silver's headshot

Ron Silver

Paul Stone
Charles Hallahan's headshot

Charles Hallahan

Earl Lapin

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