Experimenter (2015)
The Stanley Milgram Story
Starring Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Edoardo Ballerini
Directed by Michael Almereyda
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.
Runtime: 97 min.
Rating: 6.5
DVD
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America
Genres: Drama,History
Keywords: experiment,psychology,biography,controversy,breaking the fourth wall
Cast
Stanley Milgram
Sasha Menkin Milgram
Paul Hollander
James McDonough
Miller
Solomon Asch
Florence Asch
Mrs. Lowe
Rensaleer
Taylor
William Shatner
Ossie Davis
Shelia Jarcho
Thomas Shine
Alan Elms
Sally
Donna Abbott
John Williams
Braverman
Bruno
Whittaker
Taketo Murato
Wortheimer
Curtis
Paul Lazar
Mrs. Greer
Mrs. Stein
Tom Shannon
Serge Moscovici
Michele Milgram
Marc Milgram
Mr. Abe Lincoln
Maury Silver
Dick Cavett
Stephen Macht
Woman in Yellow
Harvard Student
Harvard Student