Silkwood
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1983-12-14 • 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.
- Directors
- Mike Nichols
- Editors
- Sam O'Steen
Silkwood
Visit website1983-12-14 • 2h 11m
6.9/10 • 315
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
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsMeryl 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
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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