Experimenter
Experimenter
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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Peter Sarsgaard
as Stanley Milgram
Derek Chadwick
as Harvard Student
John Leguizamo
as Taylor
Adrian Centoni
as Harvard Student
Piibe Kolka
as Contemporary Crowd Crystal Experimenter
Mamoudou Athie
as Crying Man (uncredited)
John Palladino
as John Williams
Tom Farrell
as Whittaker
Lucy Fava
as Michele Milgram
Taryn Manning
as Mrs. Lowe
Josh Hamilton
as Tom Shannon
Emily Vere Nicoll
as Donna Abbott
Kellan Lutz
as William Shatner
Dennis Haysbert
as Ossie Davis
Donnie Keshawarz
as Bruno
Michael Siberry
as George Bellak
Emily Nicole Hansen
as Hospital Receptionist
Danny A. Abeckaser
as Braverman
Lori Singer
as Florence Asch
Vondie Curtis-Hall
as Thomas Shine
Tom Bateman
as Dick Cavett
Betty Gabriel
as Sally
Benjamin Russell
as Harvard Student
Winona Ryder
as Alexandra "Sasha" Milgram
Pascal Yen-Pfister
as Serge Moscovici
Karl Geary
as Stephen Macht
Aaron Dalla Villa
as C.U.N.Y. Student
Jim Gaffigan
as James McDonough
Anthony Edwards
as Miller
Ned Eisenberg
as Solomon Asch
Gameela Wright
as Mrs. Greer
Emily Tremaine
as Shelia Jarcho
Edoardo Ballerini
as Paul Hollander
Adriana Randall
as Mrs. Stein
Paul Lazar
as Paul Errara
Jicky Schnee
as Woman in Yellow
Anton Yelchin
as Rensaleer
Sakura Lin
as C.U.N.Y. Student
