Silkwood

• 6.949 Drama
• 1983-12-14
• 131 minutes mins

The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.

Starring:

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)

Director:

Mike Nichols

Writer:

Nora Ephron Alice Arlen