1983/12/14 (US) | Drama, Thriller
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.
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.
Mike Nichols
Director
Nora Ephron
Screenplay
Alice Arlen
Screenplay
Meryl Streep
Karen Silkwood
Kurt Russell
Drew Stephens
Cher
Dolly Pelliker
Craig T. Nelson
Winston
Fred Ward
Morgan
Diana Scarwid
Angela
Ron Silver
Paul Stone
$ 10,000,000
$ 35,600,000
Released
Larry Cano
Executive Producer
Michael Hausman
Producer
Buzz Hirsch
Executive Producer
Mike Nichols
Producer
Georges Delerue
Original Music Composer