Silkwood
Silkwood
Release: 1983-12-14
·Runtime: 131m
·★ 6.9
Drama
Thriller
Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highly radioactive plutonium. Exposed one day to a lethal dose of radiation, Karen faces the blank walls of corporate indifference and denial. As her illness increases, her protest grows louder and she becomes an obvious danger to the powers that be.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
ABC Motion Pictures
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Bruce McGill
as Mace Hurley
James Rebhorn
as Los Alamos Doctor
M. Emmet Walsh
as Walt Yarborough
Tess Harper
as Linda Dawson
Cher
as Dolly Pelliker
Henderson Forsythe
as Quincy Bissell
David Strathairn
as Wesley
Kent Broadhurst
as Carl
Ron Silver
as Paul Stone
Les Lannom
as Jimmy
Will Patton
as Joe
Meryl Streep
as Karen Silkwood
Anthony Heald
as 2nd Doctor at Union Meeting
Kurt Russell
as Drew Stephens
Craig T. Nelson
as Winston
Charles Hallahan
as Earl Lapin
Bill Cobbs
as Man in Lunchroom
Ray Baker
as Pete Dawson
Fred Ward
as Morgan
Josef Sommer
as Max Richter
Sudie Bond
as Thelma Rice
Richard Hamilton
as Georgie
Diana Scarwid
as Angela
E. Katherine Kerr
as Gilda Schultz
J.C. Quinn
as Curtis Schultz
Graham Jarvis
as Doctor at Union Meeting
Gary Grubbs
as Randy Fox
