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.
Directed by Mike Nichols · Written by Alice Arlen
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Meryl 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 -
Sudie Bond Thelma Rice -
Henderson Forsythe Quincy Bissell -
E. Katherine Kerr Gilda Schultz
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