Silkwood

On November 13, 1974, Karen Silkwood, an employee of a nuclear facility, left to meet with a reporter from the New York Times. She never got there.

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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.

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Creators

Mike Nichols

director

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Alice Arlen

writer

Nora Ephron

writer

Cast

Meryl Streep actor Kurt Russell actor Cher actor Craig T. Nelson actor Fred Ward actor Diana Scarwid actor Ron Silver actor Charles Hallahan actor Josef Sommer actor Sudie Bond actor Henderson Forsythe actor

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E. Katherine Kerr actor Bruce McGill actor David Strathairn actor

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J. C. Quinn actor

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Kent Broadhurst actor Richard Hamilton actor

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Les Lannom actor M. Emmet Walsh actor Graham Jarvis actor