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Silkwood

6.9 131 mins Drama   Thriller   1983
ABC Motion Pictures  
Director(s): 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.

Casts of Silkwood

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

Henderson Forsythe

as Quincy Bissell

E. Katherine Kerr

as Gilda Schultz

Bruce McGill

as Mace Hurley

David Strathairn

as Wesley

J.C. Quinn

as Curtis Schultz

Kent Broadhurst

as Carl

Richard Hamilton

as Georgie

Les Lannom

as Jimmy

M. Emmet Walsh

as Walt Yarborough

Graham Jarvis

as Doctor at Union Meeting

James Rebhorn

as Los Alamos Doctor

Bill Cobbs

as Man in Lunchroom

Ray Baker

as Pete Dawson

Will Patton

as Joe

Tom Stovall

as 3rd Los Alamos Doctor

Drew Stephens

as Waiter (uncredited)

Tess Harper

as Linda Dawson

Anthony Heald

as 2nd Doctor at Union Meeting

Gary Grubbs

as Randy Fox

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