Experimenter (2015)

About This Movie

Experimenter is a 2015 drama and history film directed by Michael Almereyda. Its leading cast includes Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder and Jim Gaffigan. It runs for 1 hour 37 minutes.

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.

Synopsis from TMDB.

Official Trailer

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Cast

• Peter Sarsgaard Stanley Milgram
• Winona Ryder Alexandra "Sasha" Milgram
• Jim Gaffigan James McDonough
• Edoardo Ballerini Paul Hollander
• John Palladino John Williams
• Kellan Lutz William Shatner
• Dennis Haysbert Ossie Davis
• Danny A. Abeckaser Braverman
• Taryn Manning Mrs. Lowe
• Anthony Edwards Miller
• Lori Singer Florence Asch
• Josh Hamilton Tom Shannon
• Anton Yelchin Rensaleer
• Adriana Randall Mrs. Stein
• Donnie Keshawarz Bruno
• Michael Siberry George Bellak
• Ned Eisenberg Solomon Asch
• John Leguizamo Taylor