"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."

1983

2h 11m

6.9(329 votes)

Drama

Thriller

Overview

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 safety violations at the plant.

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Cast & Crew

29 members

Acting

Meryl Streep

Karen Silkwood

Acting

Kurt Russell

Drew Stephens

Acting

Cher

Dolly Pelliker

Acting

Craig T. Nelson

Winston

Acting

Fred Ward

Morgan

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Diana Scarwid

Angela

Acting

Ron Silver

Paul Stone

Acting

Charles Hallahan

Earl Lapin

Acting

Josef Sommer

Max Richter

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Sudie Bond

Thelma Rice

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Henderson Forsythe

Quincy Bissell

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E. Katherine Kerr

Gilda Schultz

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Bruce McGill

Mace Hurley

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David Strathairn

Wesley

Acting

J.C. Quinn

Curtis Schultz

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Kent Broadhurst

Carl

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Richard Hamilton

Georgie

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Les Lannom

Jimmy

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M. Emmet Walsh

Walt Yarborough

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Graham Jarvis

Doctor at Union Meeting

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James Rebhorn

Los Alamos Doctor

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Bill Cobbs

Man in Lunchroom

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Ray Baker

Pete Dawson

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Will Patton

Joe

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Tom Stovall

3rd Los Alamos Doctor

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Drew Stephens

Waiter (uncredited)

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Tess Harper

Linda Dawson

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Anthony Heald

2nd Doctor at Union Meeting

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Gary Grubbs

Randy Fox

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