Silkwood(1983)

RDrama, Thriller2h 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.

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Status: Released

Budget: $10,000,000Revenue: $35,600,000

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Top Billed Cast

  1. Meryl Streep

    Meryl Streep

    Karen Silkwood

  2. Kurt Russell

    Kurt Russell

    Drew Stephens

  3. Cher

    Cher

    Dolly Pelliker

  4. Craig T. Nelson

    Craig T. Nelson

    Winston

  5. Fred Ward

    Fred Ward

    Morgan

  6. Diana Scarwid

    Diana Scarwid

    Angela

  7. Ron Silver

    Ron Silver

    Paul Stone

  8. Charles Hallahan

    Charles Hallahan

    Earl Lapin

  9. Josef Sommer

    Josef Sommer

    Max Richter

  10. Sudie Bond

    Sudie Bond

    Thelma Rice

  11. Henderson Forsythe

    Henderson Forsythe

    Quincy Bissell

  12. E. Katherine Kerr

    E. Katherine Kerr

    Gilda Schultz

  13. Bruce McGill

    Bruce McGill

    Mace Hurley

  14. David Strathairn

    David Strathairn

    Wesley

  15. J.C. Quinn

    J.C. Quinn

    Curtis Schultz