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Experimenter (2015)
Directed by Michael Almereyda
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.
Rated PG-13 | Length 97 minutes
Actors
Peter Sarsgaard | Winona Ryder | Jim Gaffigan | Edoardo Ballerini | John Palladino | Kellan Lutz | Dennis Haysbert | Danny A. Abeckaser | Taryn Manning | Anthony Edwards | Lori Singer | Josh Hamilton | Anton Yelchin | Adriana Randall | Donnie Keshawarz | Michael Siberry | Ned Eisenberg | John Leguizamo | Harley Ware | Jason Black | Kyla Noelle | Minnie | Tom Farrell | Xavier Fan | Craig De Lorenzo | Emily Vere Nicoll | Gary Shteyngart | Abe Altman | Paul Lazar | Gameela Wright | Pascal Yen-Pfister | Mark Elliot Wilson | Lucy Fava | Jude Patrick White | Emerson Rosenthal | Betty Gabriel | Tom Bateman | Diego Cortez | Emily Tremaine | Vondie Curtis-Hall | Harold Takooshian | Jicky Schnee | Karl Geary | Tom Roma | Emily Nicole Hansen | Bay Bryan | Derek Chadwick | Adrian Centoni | Anthony Gallino | Cecelia Gray | Nina Hausner | Clara Lipfert | Natalia Miranda Guzman | Benjamin Russell | Jon Steiger | Justin Cass | Dean David | Aaron Dalla Villa | Robyn Michele Frank | Sakura Lin | Michelle Martinez | Martin Mundzik | Chris Nester | John Pinerio | Thomas Ahlers | Kerry Johnson | Spencer Kennedy | Sam Lipstyle | Joel Milgram | Alex Provan | Anna Thorngate | Dustin Yellin | Michally Kaiyalethe Diamond | Piibe Kolka | Robert McDonough | Alexandra Milgram | Lucas K. Schlenk | Mamoudou Athie