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Silkwood

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.

1983 |2h 11m |  Drama, Thriller

Videos

Cast

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Meryl Streep

Karen Silkwood

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Kurt Russell

Drew Stephens

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Cher

Dolly Pelliker

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Craig T. Nelson

Winston

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Fred Ward

Morgan

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Diana Scarwid

Angela

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Ron Silver

Paul Stone

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Charles Hallahan

Earl Lapin

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Josef Sommer

Max Richter

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Sudie Bond

Thelma Rice

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Henderson Forsythe

Quincy Bissell

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E. Katherine Kerr

Gilda Schultz

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Bruce McGill

Mace Hurley

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David Strathairn

Wesley

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J.C. Quinn

Curtis Schultz

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Kent Broadhurst

Carl

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Richard Hamilton

Georgie

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Les Lannom

Jimmy

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M. Emmet Walsh

Walt Yarborough

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Graham Jarvis

Doctor at Union Meeting

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James Rebhorn

Los Alamos Doctor

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Bill Cobbs

Man in Lunchroom

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Ray Baker

Pete Dawson

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Will Patton

Joe

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Tess Harper

Linda Dawson

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Anthony Heald

2nd Doctor at Union Meeting

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Gary Grubbs

Randy Fox

More Details

Status

Released

Language

English

Budget

$10,000,000.00

Revenue

$35,600,000.00