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.
Peter Sarsgaard
as Stanley Milgram
Winona Ryder
as Alexandra "Sasha" Milgram
Jim Gaffigan
as James McDonough
Edoardo Ballerini
as Paul Hollander
John Palladino
as John Williams
Kellan Lutz
as William Shatner
Dennis Haysbert
as Ossie Davis
Danny A. Abeckaser
as Braverman
Taryn Manning
as Mrs. Lowe
Anthony Edwards
as Miller
Lori Singer
as Florence Asch
Josh Hamilton
as Tom Shannon
