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6.9/10 • 326

1983-12-142h 11m

DramaThriller

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.

Directors
Mike Nichols
Editors
Sam O'Steen

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  1. Meryl Streep

    Meryl Streep

    Karen Silkwood

  2. Kurt Russell

    Kurt Russell

    Drew Stephens

  3. Cher

    Cher

    Dolly Pelliker

  4. Craig T. Nelson

    Craig T. Nelson

    Winston

  5. Fred Ward

    Fred Ward

    Morgan

  6. Diana Scarwid

    Diana Scarwid

    Angela

  7. Ron Silver

    Ron Silver

    Paul Stone

  8. Charles Hallahan

    Charles Hallahan

    Earl Lapin

  9. Josef Sommer

    Josef Sommer

    Max Richter

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$10,000,000.00
Revenue
$35,600,000.00
Keywords
researchplutoniumradiationoklahomanuclear power plantidealismidealistfighting the system