Silkwood (1983)

R12/14/1983Drama, Thriller2h 11m
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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.

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Meryl Streep

    Karen Silkwood

  2. Cast 1

    Kurt Russell

    Drew Stephens

  3. Cast 1

    Cher

    Dolly Pelliker

  4. Cast 1

    Craig T. Nelson

    Winston

  5. Cast 1

    Fred Ward

    Morgan

  6. Cast 1

    Diana Scarwid

    Angela

  7. Cast 1

    Ron Silver

    Paul Stone

  8. Cast 1

    Charles Hallahan

    Earl Lapin

  9. Cast 1

    Josef Sommer

    Max Richter

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Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$10,000,000.00

Revenue $35,600,000.00

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