Experimenter (2015)

10/16/2015 1h 37m

Illusion sets the stage. Deception reveals the truth.

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Overview

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 Ages at Release

Peter Sarsgaard

as Stanley Milgram

Born 03/07/1971, age

Winona Ryder

as Alexandra "Sasha" Milgram

Born 10/29/1971, age

Jim Gaffigan

as James McDonough

Born 07/07/1966, age

Edoardo Ballerini

as Paul Hollander

Born 03/20/1970, age

Kellan Lutz

as William Shatner

Born 03/15/1985, age

Dennis Haysbert

as Ossie Davis

Born 06/02/1954, age

Taryn Manning

as Mrs. Lowe

Born 11/06/1978, age

Anthony Edwards

as Miller

Born 07/19/1962, age

Lori Singer

as Florence Asch

Born 11/06/1957, age

Josh Hamilton

as Tom Shannon

Born 06/09/1969, age

Anton Yelchin

as Rensaleer

Born 03/11/1989

Died 06/19/2016, age

Ned Eisenberg

as Solomon Asch

Born 01/13/1957

Died 02/27/2022, age

John Leguizamo

as Taylor

Born 07/22/1960, age

Betty Gabriel

as Sally

Born 01/06/1981, age

Tom Bateman

as Dick Cavett

Born 03/15/1989, age

Vondie Curtis-Hall

as Thomas Shine

Born 09/30/1956, age

Mamoudou Athie

as Crying Man (uncredited)

Born 07/25/1988, age