Silkwood
- Director: Mike Nichols
- Writer: Nora Ephron; Alice Arlen
- Producer: Larry Cano; Michael Hausman
CGiii Comment
5 Oscar nominations and no wins - quite, quite ridiculous.
The acting is faultless - Streep (as usual)...but, it's Cher who shines.
It's all in the detail, in the unspoken - Nichols at his utter best.
A terrifying film.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Fairly accurate recounting of the story of Karen Silkwood, the Oklahoma nuclear-plant worker who blew the whistle on dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and who died under circumstances which are still under debate.
Cast & Characters
Meryl Streep as Karen Silkwood;
Kurt Russell as Drew Stephens;
Cher as Dolly Pelliker;
Craig T. Nelson as Winston;
Fred Ward as Morgan;
Diana Scarwid as Angela;
Ron Silver as Paul Stone;
Charles Hallahan as Earl Lapin;
Josef Sommer as Max Richter;
Sudie Bond as Thelma Rice;
Henderson Forsythe as Quincy Bissell;
E. Katherine Kerr as Gilda Schultz;
Bruce McGill as Mace Hurley;
David Strathairn as Wesley;
J.C. Quinn as Curtis Schultz