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.
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.
Crew and Cast
Mike NicholsDirector
Meryl StreepKaren Silkwood
Kurt RussellDrew Stephens
CherDolly Pelliker
Craig T. NelsonWinston
Fred WardMorgan
Diana ScarwidAngela
Ron SilverPaul Stone
Charles HallahanEarl Lapin
Josef SommerMax Richter
Sudie BondThelma Rice
Henderson ForsytheQuincy Bissell
E. Katherine KerrGilda Schultz
Bruce McGillMace Hurley
David StrathairnWesley
J.C. QuinnCurtis Schultz
Kent BroadhurstCarl
Richard HamiltonGeorgie
Les LannomJimmy
M. Emmet WalshWalt Yarborough
Graham JarvisDoctor at Union Meeting
James RebhornLos Alamos Doctor
Bill CobbsMan in Lunchroom
Ray BakerPete Dawson
Will PattonJoeTom Stovall3rd Los Alamos Doctor
Drew StephensWaiter
Tess HarperLinda Dawson
Anthony Heald2nd Doctor at Union Meeting
Gary GrubbsRandy Fox
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Info
- Status
- Released
- Released
- 14 December 1983
- Runtime
- 2h 11m
- Rating
- R
- TMDB score
- 6.9 / 10 (368 votes)
Production
- Director
- Mike Nichols
- Writers
- Alice Arlen, Nora Ephron
- Studios
- ABC Motion Pictures
- Countries
- United States of America
Box Office
- Budget
- $10.0M
- Revenue
- $35.6M
- Profit
- $25.6M
- Return
- 3.6×
Languages
- Original
- English
- Spoken
- English