Movie
Experimenter
2015 · 97 min
A cool, cerebral staging of unsettling experiments that makes you question obedience, with theatrical flourishes and a lingering unease.
- Directed by
- Michael Almereyda
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Starring
- Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Jim Gaffigan
- Tagline
- Illusion sets the stage. Deception reveals the truth.
- 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.
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- Directed by
- Michael Almereyda
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Starring
- Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Jim Gaffigan
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