Silkwood

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Meryl Streep Karen Silkwood

Kurt Russell Drew Stephens

Cher Dolly Pelliker

Craig T. Nelson Winston

Fred Ward Morgan