Silkwood (1983)
December 14, 1983
Drama, Thriller
2h 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.
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.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Mike Nichols
- Karen Silkwood Meryl Streep
- Drew Stephens Kurt Russell
- Dolly Pelliker Cher
- Winston Craig T. Nelson
- Morgan Fred Ward
- Angela Diana Scarwid
- Paul Stone Ron Silver
- Earl Lapin Charles Hallahan
Recommendations
Keywords
- research
- plutonium
- radiation
- oklahoma
- nuclear power plant
- idealism
- idealist
- fighting the system