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Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) designs a psychology experiment that remains relevant to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger (Jim Gaffigan) strapped into a chair in another room. Disregarding his pleas for mercy, the majority of subjects do not stop the experiment, administering what they think are near-fatal electric shocks, simply because they’ve been told to. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram’s exploration of authority and conformity strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster. His wife Sasha (Winona Ryder) anchors him through it all. EXPERIMENTER invites us inside Milgram’s whirring mind in this bracing portrait of a brilliant man whose conscience and creative spirit continue to be resonant, poignant, and inspirational.
 
PRODUCED, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED by Michael Almereyda
PRODUCED BY Uri Singer, p.g.a. Fabio Golombek, p.g.a
PRODUCED BY Aimee Schoof, Isen Robbins
PRODUCED BY Danny Abeckaser, Per Melita
EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY Jeff Rice
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Claudio Szajman, Rogerio Ferezini
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Lee Broda, Mark Myers, David Randall, Trevor Crafts, Christa Campbell, Lati Grobman
CO-PRODUCER Joseph White
CINEMATOGRAPHER Ryan Samul
EDITOR Kathryn J. Shubert
PRODUCTION DESIGNER Deana Sidney
COSTUME DESIGNER Kama Royz
CASTING DIRECTOR Billy Hopkins C.S.A
Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Jim Gaffigan, Edoardo Ballerini, Kellan Lutz, Dennis Hyasbert, Danny Abeckaser, Taryn Manning, Anton Yelchin |
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“CONCEPTUALLY EXCITING, INTELECTUALLY SEARCHING. Adventurous in form and thought, not just in subject. Mr. Almereyda has a boundless gift for finding new ways to tell old stories.” – Manohla Dargis, NY Times
“UNCANNILY BEAUTIFUL. THRILLINGLY REFLECTIVE. A gorgeous photo-realist circus.” – David Edelstein, New York Magazine
“MICHAEL ALMEREYDA IS ONE OF OUR TREASURES. ’Experimenter’ may be his ‘Zelig’ or ‘American Hustle’, the riff on history that lands him at the front of the cultural brainpan.” – Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
“DARING, BRACING, STUNNINGLY EVOCATIVE. ALIVE AND ALERT FROM ITS FIRST MOMENT. Rarely does a biopic balance its subject’s cultural importance and personal idiosyncrasies as finely as this remarkable film does.” – Tim Grierson, Paste
“STANLEY KUBRICK WOULD HAVE LOVED IT. Far and away director Almereyda’s strongest, most moving film. Winona Ryder is superb and so is Peter Sarsgaard.” – Amy Taubin, Film Comment
“A BRACING WORK OF SUBDUED AUDACITY.” – Sheri Linden, LA Times
“*****. It delights in surprising the viewer, right up to its mysterious and perfectly judged final moment.” – Matt Prigge, Metro
“IT IS A THRILL to see Almereyda plunge full-bore into Milgram’s work and the implications of it both then and now.” – Scott Foundas, Variety
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