Movie
Experimenter
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2015-10-16
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Status
- Released
- Production
- FJ Productions, BB Film Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Peter Sarsgaard as Stanley Milgram
- Winona Ryder as Alexandra "Sasha" Milgram
- Jim Gaffigan as James McDonough
- Edoardo Ballerini as Paul Hollander
- John Palladino as John Williams
- Kellan Lutz as William Shatner
- Dennis Haysbert as Ossie Davis
- Danny A. Abeckaser as Braverman
- Taryn Manning as Mrs. Lowe
- Anthony Edwards as Miller
- Lori Singer as Florence Asch
- Josh Hamilton as Tom Shannon
Crew
- Michael Almereyda - Director
- Michael Almereyda - Writer
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