Silkwood (1983)
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.
131 min
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.
- Release date
- December 14, 1983
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $10,000,000
- Box office
- $35,616,970
Trailer
Cast
- Meryl Streep as Karen Silkwood
- Kurt Russell as Drew Stephens
- Cher as Dolly Pelliker
- Craig T. Nelson as Winston
- Diana Scarwid as Angela
- Fred Ward as Morgan
- Ron Silver as Paul Stone
- Charles Hallahan as Earl Lapin
- Josef Sommer as Max Richter
- Sudie Bond as Thelma Rice
Crew
- Mike Nichols · Director
- Nora Ephron · Writer
- Alice Arlen · Writer
- Michael Hausman · Producer
- Mike Nichols · Producer
- Georges Delerue · Composer
- Miroslav Ondříček · Cinematographer
- Sam O'Steen · Editor
- Mary Goldberg · Casting director
- Patrizia von Brandenstein · Production designer