Movie
Silkwood
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1983-12-14
- Runtime
- 131 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- ABC Motion Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
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
Crew
- Mike Nichols - Director
- Alice Arlen - Writer
- Nora Ephron - Writer
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