Experimenter — Official Trailer

Synopsis

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…

Cast & Crew

Directed by Michael Almereyda

• Peter Sarsgaard
  as Stanley Milgram
• Winona Ryder
  as Alexandra "Sasha" Milgram
• Jim Gaffigan
  as James McDonough
• Edoardo Ballerini
  as Paul Hollander
• John Palladino
  as John Williams
• Kellan Lutz
  as William Shatner