Overview - Experimenter

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.

Cast

• Name: Peter Sarsgaard

  Character: Stanley Milgram

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• Name: Winona Ryder

  Character: Alexandra "Sasha" Milgram

  Popularity: 3.6312

  

• Name: Jim Gaffigan

  Character: James McDonough

  Popularity: 0.7829

  

• Name: Edoardo Ballerini

  Character: Paul Hollander

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• Name: John Palladino

  Character: John Williams

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• Name: Kellan Lutz

  Character: William Shatner

  Popularity: 1.7305

  

• Name: Dennis Haysbert

  Character: Ossie Davis

  Popularity: 1.5647

  

• Name: Danny A. Abeckaser

  Character: Braverman

  Popularity: 0.1878