In 1961, famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducts a psychology experiment in which people think they’re delivering electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room.

The movie stars Peter Sarsgaard, Taryn Manning, Kellan Lutz, Winona Ryder, Anton Yelchin, John Leguizamo, Lori Singer, Dennis Haysbert, Anthony Edwards, and Jim Gaffigan.

“Experimenter” opens on October 16. NYFF53: September 25 – October 11.