

Experimenter
2015-10-16 · 97 min · ★ 6.5
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha stands by him through it all.
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- Directors
- Michael Almereyda
- Production companies
- FJ Productions, BB Film Productions
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
- Revenue
- USD 224,145
Top Cast
Peter SarsgaardStanley Milgram
Winona RyderAlexandra "Sasha" Milgram
Jim GaffiganJames McDonough
Edoardo BalleriniPaul Hollander
John PalladinoJohn Williams
Kellan LutzWilliam Shatner
Dennis HaysbertOssie Davis
Danny A. AbeckaserBraverman
Taryn ManningMrs. Lowe
Anthony EdwardsMiller
Lori SingerFlorence Asch
Josh HamiltonTom Shannon
Anton YelchinRensaleer
Adriana RandallMrs. Stein
Donnie KeshawarzBruno
Michael SiberryGeorge Bellak
Ned EisenbergSolomon Asch
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