the stanford prison experiment
- Release Date
- July 17, 2015
- Director
- Kyle Patrick Alvarez
- Cast
- Billy Crudup , Michael Angarano , Moises Arias , Nicholas Braun , Gaius Charles , Keir Gilchrist
- Runtime
- 122
- Main Genre
- Drama
- Studio
- IFC Films
- Writers
- Tim Talbott
- Tagline
- They were given 2 weeks. It lasted 6 days.
Summary
It is the summer of 1971. Dr. Philip Zimbardo launches a study on the psychology of imprisonment. Twenty-four male undergraduates are randomly assigned to be either a guard or a prisoner. Set in a simulated jail, the project unfolds. The participants rapidly embody their roles—the guards become power-hungry and sadistic, while the prisoners, subject to degradation, strategize as underdogs. It soon becomes clear that, as Zimbardo and team monitor the escalation of action through surveillance cameras, they are not fully aware of how they, too, have become part of the experiment.
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