Silkwood

December. 14,1983      R
Rating:
7.1
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Meryl Streep as  Karen Silkwood
Kurt Russell as  Drew Stephens
Cher as  Dolly Pelliker
Craig T. Nelson as  Winston
Fred Ward as  Morgan
Diana Scarwid as  Angela
Ron Silver as  Paul Stone
Charles Hallahan as  Earl Lapin
Josef Sommer as  Max Richter
Sudie Bond as  Thelma Rice

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