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Experimenter

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.

2015 |1h 37m |  Drama, History

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Peter Sarsgaard

Stanley Milgram

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Winona Ryder

Alexandra "Sasha" Milgram

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Jim Gaffigan

James McDonough

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Edoardo Ballerini

Paul Hollander

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John Palladino

John Williams

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Kellan Lutz

William Shatner

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Dennis Haysbert

Ossie Davis

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Danny A. Abeckaser

Braverman

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Taryn Manning

Mrs. Lowe

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Anthony Edwards

Miller

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Lori Singer

Florence Asch

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Josh Hamilton

Tom Shannon

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Anton Yelchin

Rensaleer

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Adriana Randall

Mrs. Stein

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Donnie Keshawarz

Bruno

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Michael Siberry

George Bellak

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Ned Eisenberg

Solomon Asch

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John Leguizamo

Taylor

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Tom Farrell

Whittaker

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Emily Vere Nicoll

Donna Abbott

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Paul Lazar

Paul Errara

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Gameela Wright

Mrs. Greer

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Pascal Yen-Pfister

Serge Moscovici

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Lucy Fava

Michele Milgram

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Betty Gabriel

Sally

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Tom Bateman

Dick Cavett

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Emily Tremaine

Shelia Jarcho

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Vondie Curtis-Hall

Thomas Shine

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Jicky Schnee

Woman in Yellow

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Karl Geary

Stephen Macht

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Emily Nicole Hansen

Hospital Receptionist

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Derek Chadwick

Harvard Student

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Adrian Centoni

Harvard Student

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Benjamin Russell

Harvard Student

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Aaron Dalla Villa

C.U.N.Y. Student

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Sakura Lin

C.U.N.Y. Student

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Mamoudou Athie

Crying Man (uncredited)

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Status

Released

Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

$224,145.00