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.
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
