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Experimenter (2015)
Director: Michael Almereyda
Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Jim Gaffigan, Edoardo Ballerini
6.6
85%Runtime97 min
Rating12A
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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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Fans of thought-provoking historical dramas will appreciate director Michael Almereyda's stylized 2015 film Experimenter, which features a standout performance from Peter Sarsgaard as psychologist Stanley Milgram exploring the disturbing tendency of people to obey authority figures, even when it goes against their moral compass.
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Experimenter: The Stanley Milgram Story also known as the Experimenter, is a 2015 American biographical drama film written, directed and co-produced by Michael Almereyda. It depicts the Milgram experiment in 1961 by social psychologist Stanley Milgram. The film, co-produced by and starring Danny A. Abeckaser, also stars Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Jim Gaffigan, Kellan Lutz, Dennis Haysbert, Anthony Edwards, Lori Singer, Josh Hamilton, Anton Yelchin, John Leguizamo.
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