Experimenter

2015 · directed by Michael Almereyda

Rating

72/100

Hit

no

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.

Experimenter (2015), directed by Michael Almereyda, rates 72/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

• Peter Sarsgaard
• Winona Ryder
• Jim Gaffigan
• Kellan Lutz
• Dennis Haysbert
• Taryn Manning
• Anthony Edwards

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