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Silkwood (1983)

131 mins

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DRAMA

THRILLER

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.

name	character
Ray Baker	Pete Dawson
Sudie Bond	Thelma Rice
Kent Broadhurst	Carl
Cher	Dolly Pelliker
Bill Cobbs	Man in Lunchroom
Henderson Forsythe	Quincy Bissell
Charles Hallahan	Earl Lapin
Richard Hamilton	Georgie
Graham Jarvis	Doctor at Union Meeting
E. Katherine Kerr	Gilda Schultz
Les Lannom	Jimmy
Bruce McGill	Mace Hurley
Craig T. Nelson	Winston
Will Patton	Joe
J.C. Quinn	Curtis Schultz
James Rebhorn	Los Alamos Doctor
Kurt Russell	Drew Stephens
Diana Scarwid	Angela
Ron Silver	Paul Stone
Josef Sommer	Max Richter
David Strathairn	Wesley
Meryl Streep	Karen Silkwood
M. Emmet Walsh	Walt Yarborough
Fred Ward	Morgan

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Alice Arlen	screenplay
Georges Delerue	composer
Nora Ephron	screenplay
Michael Hausman	producer
Mike Nichols	director, producer

award	category	name	year
Golden Globe Award	Best Supporting Actress	Cher	1983

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