The read
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 83% of the 6,933 2010s drama movies in this catalog.
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.
Ratings
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do.
498 audience votes
Key crew
- Bryan SentiOriginal Music Composer
- Michael AlmereydaDirector
- Michael AlmereydaWriter
Cast
- Peter SarsgaardStanley Milgram
- Winona RyderAlexandra "Sasha" Milgram
- Jim GaffiganJames McDonough
- Edoardo BalleriniPaul Hollander
- John PalladinoJohn Williams
- Kellan LutzWilliam Shatner
- Dennis HaysbertOssie Davis
- Danny A. AbeckaserBraverman
- Taryn ManningMrs. Lowe
- Anthony EdwardsMiller
- Lori SingerFlorence Asch
- Josh HamiltonTom Shannon
