Movie
Experimenter (2015)
97 min
- Drama
- History
- Director
- Michael Almereyda
- Released
- October 16, 2015
Synopsis
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.
Cast
- 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