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Peter Sarsgaard stars as Stanley Milgram, the social psychologist who conducted the controversial “obedience study” at Yale in 1961. With the trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann airing in living rooms across America, Milgram wanted to explore how far the average person would go when instructed by an authority figure to perform a questionable act. Also starring Winona Ryder as his wife Sasha, Experimenter is a provocative film about ideas, rather than a conventional biography. Sarsgaard-as-Milgram frequently addresses the camera directly, and often we literally see on screen what he is thinking, in this thoughtful and stimulating film. With Jim Gaffigan, Dennis Haysbert, Taryn Manning, Anton Yelchin. Writer/Producer/Director: Michael Almereyda. (US 2015) 98 min.