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Experimenter (2015)

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Movie"Illusion sets the stage. Deception reveals the truth."
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PG-13 1 hr 37 minOct 16th, 2015Drama, History
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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.
StarringPeter SarsgaardWinona RyderJim Gaffigan
DirectorMichael Almereyda
WriterMichael Almereyda

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:October 16th, 2015
On DVD & Blu-ray:January 5th, 2016 - Buy DVD
Movie Box Office Gross:$224,145 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Production Companies:FJ Productions, BB Film Productions
Experimenter on the Web:Official Website
Movie Tags:
biographyexperimentpsychologybreaking the fourth wallcontroversy