Experimenter

Illusion sets the stage. Deception reveals the truth.

APPROPIATE

2015 / 97min.

Rating6.5

Genres

Drama

History

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.

Directors

Michael Almereyda

Actors

Winona Ryder

Peter Sarsgaard

John Leguizamo

Tom Bateman

Mamoudou Athie

Taryn Manning

Kellan Lutz

Dennis Haysbert

Ned Eisenberg

Anton Yelchin

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