Silkwood

6.9

United States Of America

Drama Thriller

131 min

1983

David Strathairn Gary Grubbs Anthony Heald Tess Harper Will Patton Ray Baker Bill Cobbs James Rebhorn Graham Jarvis M. Emmet Walsh Les Lannom Richard Hamilton Kent Broadhurst J.C. Quinn Meryl Streep Bruce McGill E. Katherine Kerr Henderson Forsythe Sudie Bond Josef Sommer Charles Hallahan Ron Silver Diana Scarwid Fred Ward Craig T. Nelson Cher Kurt Russell

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.