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- Release Date: 2010
- Runtime: N/A
- Genre: Drama, Thriller
- Starring: Channing Tatum, Paul Dano, Ryan Phillippe, Giovanni Ribisi ... see all
- Director: Christopher McQuarrie
- Plot: A drama based on an experiment conducted in the summer of 1971 at Stanford University, where undergraduate students assumed the roles of prison guards and inmates. Within a single day,... Read more
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I was sure that this was going to be a great script and a great story to tell.
This is the biggest problem.
This is one of those parts where it's not so much the part that I thought was interesting, it's more the story itself.
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Madonna & Rummy: An Abu Ghraib Redux
tmz.com –
2006-11-09
What were the odds?"The Stanford Prison Experiment," a new film about the most notorious prison abuse experiment of the 20th century, hires its director on the very same week that the man responsible for the most egregious prison abuse scandal... ... Full Article
Das Experiment
popmatters.com –
2003-07-01
After more than 30 years, the "Stanford Prison Experiment" continues to be the subject of heated debates among psychologists, historians, lawyers, and human rights advocates. ... Full Article
The Stanford Prison Experiment was a doomed research project in the early 1970s that aimed to test the psychological effects of prison life. A group of student volunteers were divided into prisoners and guards and placed in a mock-up of... ... Full Article