Experimenter
“Illusion sets the stage. Deception reveals the truth.”
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
78 people
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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Paul Hollander
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John Williams
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Kellan Lutz
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Dennis Haysbert
Ossie Davis
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Danny A. Abeckaser
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Florence Asch
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Michael Almereyda Director · Bryan Senti Composer Ryan Samul Cinematographer
Worldwide gross $224K · United States release October 16, 2015 · Produced in United States
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$224,145
Production
FJ Productions
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BB Film Productions
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United States
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The Experimenter: The Milgam Project
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · January 25, 2015
Premiere · Sundance Film Festival
United States · October 16, 2015
Theatrical
Belgium
October 16, 2015 · Limited theatrical
Brazil
September 23, 2016 · Physical · IMDB
Canada
October 16, 2015 · Limited theatrical
Denmark
February 15, 2016 · Physical
France
January 27, 2016 · Theatrical
Germany
September 23, 2016 · Digital
Japan
February 25, 2017 · Theatrical
Netherlands
March 31, 2016 · Theatrical
August 25, 2016 · Physical · DVD
Norway
October 16, 2015 · Limited theatrical
Portugal
August 4, 2016 · Theatrical
South Korea
May 12, 2016 · Theatrical
Sweden
October 16, 2015 · Limited theatrical
United Kingdom
November 14, 2015 · Limited theatrical
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