Silkwood

Plot

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 saf... read more

  • Mike Nichols

    Director

  • Nora Ephron

    Screenplay

  • Alice Arlen

    Screenplay

  • Miroslav Ondříček

    Director of Photography

  • Sam O'Steen

    Editor

  • 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

  • Bruce McGill

    Mace Hurley

  • David Strathairn

    Wesley

  • J.C. Quinn

    Curtis Schultz

  • Kent Broadhurst

    Carl

  • Richard Hamilton

    Georgie

  • Les Lannom

    Jimmy

  • M. Emmet Walsh

    Walt Yarborough

  • Graham Jarvis

    Doctor at Union Meeting

  • James Rebhorn

    Los Alamos Doctor

  • Bill Cobbs

    Man in Lunchroom

  • Ray Baker

    Pete Dawson

  • Will Patton

    Joe

  • Tom Stovall

    3rd Los Alamos Doctor

  • Drew Stephens

    Waiter (uncredited)

  • Tess Harper

    Linda Dawson

  • Anthony Heald

    2nd Doctor at Union Meeting

  • Gary Grubbs

    Randy Fox

  • Runtime

    131 minutes

    Released

    1983-12-14

    Languages

    English

    Countries

    United States of America

    Studios

    ABC Motion Pictures

    Sound

  • Georges Delerue

    Original Music Composer

  • Updated

    39 days ago

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