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The Experiment

The Experiment

6,4 /10 (1,316 Votes)
2010 EN 96 min

Overview

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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Release date

15/07/2010

Votes

1,316

Popularity

2.2

They never imagined it would go this far

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Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

96 min

Budget

$21,800,000

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LastCaress1972

2013-08-11

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 participate in a social experiment: they are to be coached out to a camera-ed up detention centre, where eight will be selected to play the role of prison guards while the remaining sixteen will adop…

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