Experimenter

About the movie

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.

Director

Michael Almereyda

Age rating (US)

PG-13

Cast

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  Peter SarsgaardStanley Milgram
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  Winona RyderAlexandra "Sasha" Milgram
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  Jim GaffiganJames McDonough
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  Edoardo BalleriniPaul Hollander
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  John PalladinoJohn Williams