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Silkwood

1983Directed by Mike Nichols2h 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.

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.

  • Drama

Cast

  • Meryl Streep as Karen Silkwood
  • Kurt Russell as Drew Stephens
  • Cher as Dolly Pelliker
  • Craig T. Nelson as Winston
  • Fred Ward as Morgan
  • Diana Scarwid as Angela
  • Ron Silver as Paul Stone
  • Charles Hallahan as Earl Lapin
  • Josef Sommer as Max Richter
  • Sudie Bond as Thelma Rice
  • Henderson Forsythe as Quincy Bissell
  • E. Katherine Kerr as Gilda Schultz
  • Bruce McGill as Mace Hurley
  • David Strathairn as Wesley
  • J.C. Quinn as Curtis Schultz
  • Kent Broadhurst as Carl

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