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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 ...
A movie depicting the life of an Oklahoma whistleblower is now available to stream, nearly 50 years after the movie's subject was killed in a car wreck. Karen Silkwood was an employee at the Kerr ...
Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. At the age of 12, he began acting in the Western TV series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964). In the late 1960s, he signed a ten-year contract with The Walt Disney Company, where he starred as Dexter Riley in films such as The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972), and The Strongest ...
James Robert Rebhorn (September 1, 1948 – March 21, 2014) was an American character actor.Rebhorn appeared in over 100 films, television series, and plays. Rebhorn appeared in numerous films, portraying Los Alamos Doctor in Silkwood (1983), Drunk Businessman in Cat's Eye, Richard in Heart of Midnight (1988), Prosecutor in Desperate Hours (1990), Dr. Sultan in Regarding Henry (1991), George ...
Liane Moriarty, author of the novel of the same name, on which the first season is based, wrote a 200-page novella that served as the basis for the second season. Moriarty decided to name the new character Mary Louise, after Streep's legal name. Streep subsequently agreed to the part without reading a script for the first time in her career. [197]
She was next cast alongside Meryl Streep and Kurt Russell in the critically hailed drama Silkwood (1983) directed by Mike Nichols, inspired by the true-life story of Karen Silkwood, in which her character was a lesbian who worked at the Kerr-McGee plant in Cimarron, Oklahoma. It was a commercial success and grossed $35 million in the United ...
The official story was that Karen Silkwood died in a one-car crash on Nov. 13, 1974. ... and Silkwood's story gained significant attention in 1983 with the release of "Silkwood," a movie based on ...
Sommer made his acting debut at the age of nine in a North Carolina production of Watch on the Rhine.He made his film debut in Dirty Harry (1971) and appeared in films such as The Stepford Wives (1975), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Still of the Night (1982), Silkwood (1983), Peter Weir's thriller Witness (1985) opposite Harrison Ford (where he played a dirty cop), Target (1985 ...