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Experimenter

Experimenter

2015 · Movie · 1h 37m · PG-13

Streaming on Prime and Tubi.

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 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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SourceRatingWeight
IMDb6.6/1042%
Rotten Tomatoes84%21%
Metacritic81/10021%
TMDB6.5/10501 votes16%
Balasaur Score73100%

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