Experimenter
- Released on
- Runtime
- 97 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Peter Sarsgaard
- Winona Ryder
- Jim Gaffigan
- Edoardo Ballerini
- John Palladino
- Kellan Lutz
- Dennis Haysbert
- Danny A. Abeckaser
- Taryn Manning
- Anthony Edwards
- Lori Singer
- Josh Hamilton
- Anton Yelchin
- Adriana Randall
- Donnie Keshawarz
- Michael Siberry
- Ned Eisenberg
- John Leguizamo
- Harley Ware
- Jason Black
- Kyla Noelle
- Minnie
- Tom Farrell
- Xavier Fan
- Craig De Lorenzo
- Emily Vere Nicoll
- Gary Shteyngart
- Abe Altman
- Paul Lazar
- Gameela Wright
- Pascal Yen-Pfister
- Mark Elliot Wilson
- Lucy Fava
- Jude Patrick White
- Emerson Rosenthal
- Betty Gabriel
- Tom Bateman
- Diego Cortez
- Emily Tremaine
- Vondie Curtis-Hall
- Harold Takooshian
- Jicky Schnee
- Karl Geary
- Tom Roma
- Emily Nicole Hansen
- Bay Bryan
- Derek Chadwick
- Adrian Centoni
- Anthony Gallino
- Cecelia Gray
- Nina Hausner
- Clara Lipfert
- Natalia Miranda Guzman
- Benjamin Russell
- Jon Steiger
- Justin Cass
- Dean David
- Aaron Dalla Villa
- Robyn Michele Frank
- Sakura Lin
- Michelle Martinez
- Martin Mundzik
- Chris Nester
- John Pinerio
- Thomas Ahlers
- Kerry Johnson
- Spencer Kennedy
- Sam Lipstyle
- Joel Milgram
- Alex Provan
- Anna Thorngate
- Dustin Yellin
- Michally Kaiyalethe Diamond
- Piibe Kolka
- Robert McDonough
- Alexandra Milgram
- Lucas K. Schlenk
- Mamoudou Athie
Director
- Michael Almereyda
Producers
- Danny A. Abeckaser
- Michael Almereyda
- Fabio Golombek
- Per Melita
- Isen Robbins
- Aimee Schoof
- Uri Singer
