Experimenter

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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Cast

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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