Overview - Silkwood

Date of release

Genres

  • Drama

Runtime: 131 minutes

Homepage: Silkwood

Budget

$10,000,000.00

Revenue

$35,616,970.00

Spoken Languages

  • English

Production companies

  • Name: ABC Motion Pictures

    Production country United States of America

Overview

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.

Cast

  • Name: Meryl Streep

    Character: Karen Silkwood

    Popularity: 5.6279

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  • Name: Kurt Russell

    Character: Drew Stephens

    Popularity: 5.245

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  • Name: Cher

    Character: Dolly Pelliker

    Popularity: 1.2039

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  • Name: Craig T. Nelson

    Character: Winston

    Popularity: 1.6793

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  • Name: Fred Ward

    Character: Morgan

    Popularity: 1.6958

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  • Name: Diana Scarwid

    Character: Angela

    Popularity: 1.1517

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  • Name: Ron Silver

    Character: Paul Stone

    Popularity: 0.9606

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  • Name: Charles Hallahan

    Character: Earl Lapin

    Popularity: 0.773

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