--- title: 'Silkwood (1983)' type: 'film' director: 'Mike Nichols' released: '1983-01-01' runtime_minutes: 129 certification: 'R' genres: - 'Drama' - 'History' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/silkwood-1983' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086312/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Silkwood (1983) 1983 · R · 129 min · Drama, History · United States ## Synopsis Silkwood is a 1983 American biographical drama film directed by Mike Nichols, and starring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, and Cher. The screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen was adapted from the book Who Killed Karen Silkwood? by Rolling Stone writer and activist Howard Kohn, which detailed the life of Karen Silkwood, a nuclear whistle-blower and a labor union activist who investigated alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked. In real life, her death in a car crash gave rise to a 1979 lawsuit, Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee, led by attorney Gerry Spence. The jury rendered its verdict of $10 million in damages to be paid to the Silkwood estate, the largest amount in damages ever awarded for that kind of case at the time. The Silkwood estate eventually settled for $1.3 million. ## Credits - **Director:** [Mike Nichols](https://cinepixo.com/people/mike-nichols) - **Screenplay:** [Nora Ephron](https://cinepixo.com/people/nora-ephron), [Alice Arlen](https://cinepixo.com/people/alice-arlen) - **Original Music Composer:** [Georges Delerue](https://cinepixo.com/people/georges-delerue) - **Producer:** [Michael Hausman](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-hausman) - **Director of Photography:** [Miroslav Ondříček](https://cinepixo.com/people/miroslav-ondricek) - **Editor:** [Sam O'Steen](https://cinepixo.com/people/sam-o-steen) ## Cast - [Jim Beaver](https://cinepixo.com/people/jim-beaver) - [Anthony Heald](https://cinepixo.com/people/anthony-heald) - [Ron Silver](https://cinepixo.com/people/ron-silver) - [Charles Hallahan](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-hallahan) - [Fred Ward](https://cinepixo.com/people/fred-ward) - [M. Emmet Walsh](https://cinepixo.com/people/m-emmet-walsh) - [Gary Grubbs](https://cinepixo.com/people/gary-grubbs) - [Will Patton](https://cinepixo.com/people/will-patton) - [Cher](https://cinepixo.com/people/cher) - [Kurt Russell](https://cinepixo.com/people/kurt-russell) - [Josef Sommer](https://cinepixo.com/people/josef-sommer) - [J. C. Quinn](https://cinepixo.com/people/j-c-quinn) - [Michael Bond](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-bond) - [Craig T. Nelson](https://cinepixo.com/people/craig-t-nelson) - [David Strathairn](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-strathairn) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/silkwood-1983 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1412037); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.