December 14, 1983
131 minutes
DramaThriller
Silkwood
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.
Trailer
Cast
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)
