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The Experiment

2010 96 min ★ 6.4 Thriller, Drama

20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.

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Cast

Adrien Brody

Travis

Cam Gigandet

Chase

Forest Whitaker

Barris

Maggie Grace

Kelly

Clifton Collins Jr.

Nix

Fisher Stevens

Archaleta

Damien Leake

Govenor

Ethan Cohn

Benji

Travis Fimmel

Helweg

David Banner

Bosch

Details

Director

Paul T. Scheuring

Tagline

"They never imagined it would go this far"

Status

Released

Original Language

Budget

$21,800,000

Production

Stage 6 Films, Inferno Entertainment, Cinedigm, Magnet Media Productions, Magnet Media Group, Adelstein/Parouse Productions, Mercator Pictures, Natural Selection, Westeast Films

Reviews

LastCaress1972

August 11, 2013

Decent enough if unremarkable English-language take on Oliver Hirschbiegels superior Das Experiment, which itself was adapted from a novel (Black Box) which was inspired by a real experiment carried out at Stanford University in 1971. It was funded by the US Navy, and it was abandoned after only six days, when it went tits-up. The story: a bunch of people are interviewed, and 24 are selected to...