The Stanford Prison Experiment
They were given 2 weeks. It lasted 6 days.
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7/17/2015Runtime
122 minsOverview
In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings soon get out of hand. Based on a true story.
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A descent into psychological chaos as college students in a mock prison quickly shed their humanity under the allure of authority. The film watches a controlled experiment spiral into something genuinely disturbing, both a historical document and a painful study of how power corrupts.
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Billy Crudup
Dr. Philip Zimbardo
Michael Angarano
Christopher Archer
Ezra Miller
Daniel Culp / Prisoner 8612
Tye Sheridan
Peter Mitchell / Prisoner 819
Olivia Thirlby
Dr. Christina Maslach
Nelsan Ellis
Jesse Fletcher
Moisés Arias
Anthony Carroll
Nicholas Braun
Karl Vandy
Gaius Charles
Paul Vogel
Keir Gilchrist
John Lovett
Ki Hong Lee
Gavin Lee / Prisoner 3401
Thomas Mann
Prisoner 416
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