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15/07/2010 Thriller, Drama 1h 36m
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They never imagined it would go this far

Overview

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

  1. Paul T. Scheuring

    Director, Writer

  2. Mario Giordano

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Adrien Brody

    Travis

  2. Cam Gigandet

    Chase

  3. Forest Whitaker

    Barris

  4. Maggie Grace

    Kelly

  5. Clifton Collins Jr.

    Nix

  6. Fisher Stevens

    Archaleta

  7. Damien Leake

    Govenor

  8. Ethan Cohn

    Benji

  9. Travis Fimmel

    Helweg

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Reviews

A review by LastCaress1972
Written by LastCaress1972 on 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...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$21,800,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

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