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Silkwood

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.

1983 · R · 2h 11m

Directed by Mike Nichols

6.9

TMDB audience score
369 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • Meryl Streep
    Karen Silkwood

  • Kurt Russell
    Drew Stephens

  • Cher
    Dolly Pelliker

  • Craig T. Nelson
    Winston

  • Fred Ward
    Morgan

  • Diana Scarwid
    Angela

  • Ron Silver
    Paul Stone

  • Charles Hallahan
    Earl Lapin

  • Josef Sommer
    Max Richter

  • Sudie Bond
    Thelma Rice

  • Henderson Forsythe
    Quincy Bissell

  • E. Katherine Kerr
    Gilda Schultz

  • Bruce McGill
    Mace Hurley

  • David Strathairn
    Wesley

  • J.C. Quinn
    Curtis Schultz

  • Kent Broadhurst
    Carl

  • Richard Hamilton
    Georgie

  • Les Lannom
    Jimmy