Silkwood
1983, Film, 131 min, Biography, Drama, History, English, United States, MoviePedia score 69
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.
Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highly radioactive plutonium. Exposed one day to a lethal dose of radiation, Karen faces the blank walls of corporate indifference and denial. As her illness increases, her protest grows louder and she becomes an obvious danger to the powers that be.
Directed by Mike Nichols
Cast
- Meryl Streep as Karen Silkwood
- Kurt Russell as Drew Stephens
- Cher as Dolly Pelliker
- Craig T. Nelson as Winston
- Diana Scarwid as Angela
- Fred Ward as Morgan
- Ron Silver as Paul Stone
- Charles Hallahan as Earl Lapin
- Josef Sommer as Max Richter
- Sudie Bond as Thelma Rice
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