The Stanford Prison Experiment

Unsettling fact-based drama about a bunch of 24 Californian university students who volunteered to take part in a study into prison life
This unsettling fact-based drama reproduces the notorious, still controversial psychology experiment from 1971 in which a bunch of 24 Californian university students volunteered to take part in a study into prison life. A flip of a coin decided who would be mock guards and who prisoners, but the role-playing soon got alarmingly out of hand.
Ezra Miller and Michael Angarano stand out among the students, while Billy Crudup plays the tunnel-visioned academic in charge, Philip Zimbardo. The film is tough going in places but offers a chilling study into the psychology of authority and the abuse of power.
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