Description:
What happens when a college psych study goes shockingly wrong? In 1971 Stanford University professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo (Billy Crudup) cast 24 student volunteers as prisoners and guards in a simulated jail to examine the source of abusive behavior in the prison system. The results astonished the world, as participants went from middle-class undergrads to drunk-with-power sadists and submissive victims in just a few days. [IFC Films]
Production Company
Coup d'Etat Films,
Sandbar Pictures,
Abandon Pictures,
Priority Pictures
Release Date Jul 17, 2015
Duration 2 h 2 m
Rating R
Tagline They were given 2 weeks. It lasted 6 days.
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