Silkwood
Silkwood

Information

Release DateDecember 14, 1983
Runtime2h 11m
StatusReleased
Budget$10M
Revenue$36M
ProductionABC Motion Pictures
LanguagesEnglish
6.9
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Silkwood

"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."

Synopsis

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
Mike Nichols

Featured Cast

Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep

Karen Silkwood

Kurt Russell

Kurt Russell

Drew Stephens

Cher

Cher

Dolly Pelliker

Craig T. Nelson

Craig T. Nelson

Winston

Fred Ward

Fred Ward

Morgan

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