Silkwood

Biography, Drama, Thriller

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
Charles Hallahan	Earl Lapin
Josef Sommer	Max Richter
Sudie Bond	Thelma Rice

Director	Mike Nichols
Producer	Larry Cano; Michael Hausman
Writer	Nora Ephron; Alice Arlen

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.