Silkwood 1983

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.

Silkwood

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Drama Thriller

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

Meryl Streep

Karen Silkwood

Kurt Russell

Drew Stephens

Cher

Dolly Pelliker

Craig T. Nelson

Winston

Fred Ward

Morgan

Diana Scarwid

Angela

Release Date 1983-12-14
Runtime 2h 11m
Directors Mike Nichols, Miroslav Ondříček, Michael Hausman, Joel Tuber, John Dapper
Producers Larry Cano, Michael Hausman, Buzz Hirsch, Mike Nichols, Joel Tuber, Tom Stovall
Writers Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen