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Film / 1983
Silkwood
Directed by
Mike Nichols
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.
The story
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.
Cast
Meryl StreepKaren Silkwood
Kurt RussellDrew Stephens
CherDolly Pelliker
Craig T. NelsonWinston
Fred WardMorgan
Diana ScarwidAngela
Ron SilverPaul Stone
Charles HallahanEarl Lapin
Josef SommerMax Richter
Sudie BondThelma Rice
Henderson ForsytheQuincy Bissell
E. Katherine KerrGilda Schultz
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Bruce McGillMace Hurley
David StrathairnWesley
J.C. QuinnCurtis Schultz
Kent BroadhurstCarl
Richard HamiltonGeorgie
Les LannomJimmy
M. Emmet WalshWalt Yarborough
Graham JarvisDoctor at Union Meeting
James RebhornLos Alamos Doctor
Bill CobbsMan in Lunchroom
Ray BakerPete Dawson
Will PattonJoe
Tom Stovall3rd Los Alamos Doctor
Drew StephensWaiter (uncredited)
Tess HarperLinda Dawson
Anthony Heald2nd Doctor at Union Meeting
Gary GrubbsRandy Fox
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