Silkwood

Dec 14, 1983

2h 11m

★ 6.9

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

A plutonium processing plant worker is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured, and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing safety violations.

Genres

Drama

Thriller

Production Companies

ABC Motion Pictures

Silkwood Trailers

Cast

Karen Silkwood

Meryl Streep

Drew Stephens

Kurt Russell

Dolly Pelliker

Cher

Winston

Craig T. Nelson

Morgan

Fred Ward

Angela

Diana Scarwid

Paul Stone

Ron Silver

Earl Lapin

Charles Hallahan

Max Richter

Josef Sommer

Thelma Rice

Sudie Bond

Quincy Bissell

Henderson Forsythe

Gilda Schultz

E. Katherine Kerr

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