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Silkwood (1983)

Directed by Mike Nichols

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.

Rated R | Length 131 minutes

Actors

Meryl Streep | Kurt Russell | Cher | Craig T. Nelson | Fred Ward | Diana Scarwid | Ron Silver | Charles Hallahan | Josef Sommer | Sudie Bond | Henderson Forsythe | E. Katherine Kerr | Bruce McGill | David Strathairn | J. C. Quinn | Kent Broadhurst | Richard Hamilton | Les Lannom | M. Emmet Walsh | Graham Jarvis | James Rebhorn | Bill Cobbs | Ray Baker | Will Patton | Tom Stovall | Drew Stephens | Tess Harper | Anthony Heald | Gary Grubbs