Storyline
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.
Directors
Cast
Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Craig T. Nelson, James Rebhorn, Fred Ward, David Strathairn, Bruce McGill, Richard Hamilton, Cher, M. Emmet Walsh, Diana Scarwid, Ray Baker, Charles Hallahan, Josef Sommer, Ron Silver, Graham Jarvis, J.C. Quinn, Kent Broadhurst, Sudie Bond, Henderson Forsythe, Les Lannom, E. Katherine Kerr
Trailer
Reviews
100
That could have been a good movie, but predictable. Mike Nichols' Silkwood is not predictable.... We realize this is a lot more movie than perhaps we were expecting.
100
Mike Nichols, in his first venture into movies since "The Fortune," elicited superlative performances from the actors, particularly Streep and stage veteran Sudi Bond.
100
Boston Globe
Fueled by Meryl Streep's performance in the title role, energized by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen's script and tempered by Mike Nichols' understated direction, Silkwood is a brilliant movie that puts art above polemics, and the facts above speculation. [14 Dec 1983]
80
A very fine biographical drama.
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Silkwood is a friendly, kooky and caring film. [09 Dec 1983]
