Drama
Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highly radioactive plutonium. Exposed one day to a lethal dose of radiation, Karen faces the blank walls of corporate indifference and denial. As her illness increases, her protest grows louder and she becomes an obvious danger to the powers that be.
Directed by
Mike Nichols
Written by
Alice Arlen, Nora Ephron
Meryl Streep
Karen Silkwood
Kurt Russell
Drew Stephens
David Strathairn
Wesley
Will Patton
Joe
Bruce McGill
Mace Hurley
M. Emmet Walsh
Walt Yarborough
Bill Cobbs
Man in Lunchroom
Josef Sommer
Max Richter
Fred Ward
Morgan
Craig T. Nelson
Winston
Cher
Dolly Pelliker
Tess Harper
Linda Dawson
Anthony Heald
2nd Doctor at Union Meeting
Ray Baker
Pete Dawson
Diana Scarwid
Angela
Ron Silver
Paul Stone
Charles Hallahan
Earl Lapin
James Rebhorn
Los Alamos Doctor
Gary Grubbs
Randy Fox
Graham Jarvis
Doctor at Union Meeting
Kent Broadhurst
Carl
J.C. Quinn
Curtis Schultz
Sudie Bond
Thelma Rice
Dick Warlock
Les Lannom
Jimmy
Richard Hamilton
Georgie
Henderson Forsythe
Quincy Bissell
E. Katherine Kerr
Gilda Schultz
Tom Stovall
3rd Los Alamos Doctor
Drew Stephens
Waiter (uncredited)

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