Silkwood (1983)

12/14/1983 (US) • 2h 11m

Drama, Thriller

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.

Overview

A plutonium processing plant worker is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured, and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing safety violations.

Top Billed Cast

Meryl Streep

Karen Silkwood

Kurt Russell

Drew Stephens

Cher

Dolly Pelliker

Fred Ward

Morgan

Ron Silver

Paul Stone

Josef Sommer

Max Richter


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$10,000,000.00

Revenue

$35,616,970.00

Keywords

research

plutonium

radiation

oklahoma

nuclear power plant

idealism

idealist

fighting the system

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