Experimenter
2015 · 6.5 TMDB · Drama, History
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.
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The 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)
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