Silkwood

1983 · Drama · 131 min

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.

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