Experimenter (2015)

Illusion sets the stage. Deception reveals the truth.

Movie · Drama, History · 1h 37m · Rated 6.5/10 on TMDB · Released October 16, 2015

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.

Directed by Michael Almereyda

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

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