Experimenter

Illusion sets the stage. Deception reveals the truth.

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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

Peter Sarsgaard actor Winona Ryder actor Jim Gaffigan actor Edoardo Ballerini actor

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John Palladino actor Kellan Lutz actor Dennis Haysbert actor Danny A. Abeckaser actor Taryn Manning actor Anthony Edwards actor Lori Singer actor Josh Hamilton actor Anton Yelchin actor

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Adriana Randall actor Donnie Keshawarz actor Michael Siberry actor Ned Eisenberg actor John Leguizamo actor

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Harley Ware actor

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Jason Black actor