Experimenter

6.5 2015 Michael Almereyda 1h 37m
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Experimenter

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.

Peter Sarsgaard Peter Sarsgaard Stanley Milgram
Winona Ryder Winona Ryder Alexandra "Sasha" Milgram
Jim Gaffigan Jim Gaffigan James McDonough
Edoardo Ballerini Edoardo Ballerini Paul Hollander
John Palladino John Palladino John Williams
Kellan Lutz Kellan Lutz William Shatner
Dennis Haysbert Dennis Haysbert Ossie Davis
Danny A. Abeckaser Danny A. Abeckaser Braverman
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