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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Peter Sarsgaard
Stanley Milgram

Winona Ryder
Alexandra "Sasha" Milgram

Jim Gaffigan
James McDonough

Edoardo Ballerini
Paul Hollander

John Palladino
John Williams

Kellan Lutz
William Shatner

Dennis Haysbert
Ossie Davis

Danny A. Abeckaser
Braverman

Taryn Manning
Mrs. Lowe

Anthony Edwards
Miller

Lori Singer
Florence Asch

Josh Hamilton
Tom Shannon

Anton Yelchin
Rensaleer

Adriana Randall
Mrs. Stein
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