“…for those who imbibe, Experimenter offers a heady brew of theories about the essence of human nature, and a Peter Sarsgaard performance that catches Milgram in all his seductive, megalomaniacal brilliance.” (Variety)

The edgy and singular writer/director Michael Almereyda (Hamlet, starring Ethan Hawke) paints a superb dramatic portrait of Stanley Milgram, the Yale University-based social scientist who in 1961 set out to determine how and why people could be pushed to extremes. The son of Holocaust survivors, Milgram created the “obedience experiments,” in which ordinary people were commanded to inflict pain on others by an authority figure. He asked, “Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we call them all accomplices?” A fascinating look at an unnerving subject with an all-star cast that includes Peter Sarsgaard and Winona Ryder.