Experimenter (2015)
Experimenter: The Stanley Milgram Story
Illusion sets the stage. Deception reveals the truth.
98 min
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.
- Release date
- October 16, 2015
- Country of origin
- United States
- Box office
- $224,145
Trailer
Cast
- Peter Sarsgaard as Stanley Milgram
- Winona Ryder as Alexandra 'Sasha' Milgram
- Jim Gaffigan as James McDonough
- Anthony Edwards as Miller
- Kellan Lutz as William Shatner
- Taryn Manning as Mrs. Lowe
- Anton Yelchin as Rensaleer
- Edoardo Ballerini as Paul Hollander
- Vondie Curtis-Hall as Thomas Shine
- John Leguizamo as Taylor
Crew
- Michael Almereyda · Director
- Michael Almereyda · Writer
- Danny A. Abeckaser · Producer
- Michael Almereyda · Producer
- Fabio Golombek · Producer
- Per Melita · Producer
- Bryan Senti · Composer
- Ryan Samul · Cinematographer
- Kathryn J. Schubert · Editor
- Billy Hopkins · Casting director
- Deana Sidney · Production designer