Experimenter
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- Release Date
- October 16, 2015
- Director
- Michael Almereyda
- Cast
- Peter Sarsgaard , Winona Ryder , Kellan Lutz , Anton Yelchin , Taryn Manning , Edoardo Ballerini
- Runtime
- 90
- Main Genre
- Drama
- Writers
- Michael Almereyda
- Tagline
- The Stanley Milgram Story
- Website
- http://experimentermovie.com/
Summary
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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