Silkwood

Silkwood (1983)

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.

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.

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  • Release Date: 1983-12-14
  • Runtime: 2h 11min
  • Director: Mike Nichols

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Cast

  • Meryl Streep

    Karen Silkwood

  • Kurt Russell

    Drew Stephens

  • Cher

    Dolly Pelliker

  • Craig T. Nelson

    Winston

  • Fred Ward

    Morgan

  • Diana Scarwid

    Angela

  • Ron Silver

    Paul Stone

  • Charles Hallahan

    Earl Lapin

  • Josef Sommer

    Max Richter

  • Sudie Bond

    Thelma Rice

  • Henderson Forsythe

    Quincy Bissell

  • E. Katherine Kerr

    Gilda Schultz

  • Bruce McGill

    Mace Hurley

  • David Strathairn

    Wesley

  • J.C. Quinn

    Curtis Schultz

  • Kent Broadhurst

    Carl

  • Richard Hamilton

    Georgie

  • Les Lannom

    Jimmy

  • M. Emmet Walsh

    Walt Yarborough

  • Graham Jarvis

    Doctor at Union Meeting

  • James Rebhorn

    Los Alamos Doctor

  • Bill Cobbs

    Man in Lunchroom

  • Ray Baker

    Pete Dawson

  • Will Patton

    Joe

  • Tom Stovall

    3rd Los Alamos Doctor

  • Drew Stephens

    Waiter (uncredited)

  • Tess Harper

    Linda Dawson

  • Anthony Heald

    2nd Doctor at Union Meeting

  • Gary Grubbs

    Randy Fox

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