Plot
Twenty-four male students out of seventy-five were selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building.
Release Year: 2015
Rating: 6.5/10 (392 voted)
Critic's Score: 73/100
Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez
Stars: Ezra Miller, Tye Sheridan, Billy Crudup
Storyline
Twenty-four male students out of seventy-five were selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building.
Cast: Billy Crudup -
Dr. Philip Zimbardo
Michael Angarano -
Christopher Archer
Moises Arias -
Anthony Carroll
Nicholas Braun -
Karl Vandy
Gaius Charles -
Paul Vogel
Keir Gilchrist -
John Lovett
Ki Hong Lee -
Gavin Lee /
4301
Thomas Mann -
Prisoner 416
Ezra Miller -
Daniel Culp /
8612
Logan Miller -
Jerry Sherman /
5486
Tye Sheridan -
Peter Mitchell /
819
Johnny Simmons -
Jeff Jansen /
1037
James Wolk -
Mike Penny
Nelsan Ellis -
Jesse Fletcher
Olivia Thirlby -
Dr. Christina Maslach
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 17 July 2015
Filming Locations: Palo Alto, California, USA
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Did You Know?
Trivia:
Based on Dr. Zimbardo's real life psychological study: 'The Stanford Prison Experiment'. See more »
User Review
Author:
Rating: 4/10
This movie looks like a remake from Forest Whitaker Adrien Brody 2010
The Experiment. What y'all may not notice, similar experiemtS had been
conducted all through the history of cruel mankind.
The original Stanford prison experiment was in part a response to the
Milgram experiment at Yale beginning in 1961 and published in 1963. The
Third Wave was a 1967 recreation of Nazi Party dynamics by high school
teacher Ron Jones in Palo Alto, California. Although the veracity of
Jones' accounts has been questioned, several participants in the study
have gone on record to confirm the events.
Then came Stanford University psychology professor Philip Zimbardo, on
August 14–20, 1971, led a team of researchers, funded by the U.S.
Office of Naval Research and was of interest to both the U.S. Navy and
Marine Corps as an investigation into the causes of conflict between
military guards and prisoners. The experiment, turned out to be a
classic study on the psychology of imprisonment and is a topic covered
in most introductory psychology textbooks.
After 2001 German film Das Experiment, and acts of prisoner torture and
abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were publicized in March 2004,
psychologists Alex Haslam and Steve Reicher conducted another Prison
Study in 2006. This was a partial replication of the Stanford prison
experiment conducted with the assistance of the BBC, which broadcast
events in the study in a documentary series called The Experiment.
Their results and conclusions differed from Zimbardo's and led to a
number of publications on tyranny, stress, and leadership（REALLY?）.
So tell me, do we expect anything you haven't seen nor read from the
result of this EXPERIMENT? I found this movie predictable & bored
indeed.
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