Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 122 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings soon get out of hand. Based on a true story.
- prison
- experiment
- 1970s
- based on true story
- prison brutality
- human experiment
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Billy Crudup
Dr. Philip Zimbardo
Michael Angarano
Christopher Archer
Ezra Miller
Daniel Culp / Prisoner 8612
Tye Sheridan
Peter Mitchell / Prisoner 819
- Olivia Thirlby — Dr. Christina Maslach
- Nelsan Ellis — Jesse Fletcher
- Moisés Arias — Anthony Carroll
- Nicholas Braun — Karl Vandy
- Gaius Charles — Paul Vogel
- Keir Gilchrist — John Lovett
- Ki Hong Lee — Gavin Lee / Prisoner 3401
- Thomas Mann — Prisoner 416
- Logan Miller — Jerry Sherman / Prisoner 5486
- Johnny Simmons — Jeff Jansen / Prisoner 1037
- James Wolk — Mike Penny
- Directed
- Kyle Patrick Alvarez
- Written
- Tim Talbott
Production
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 1,000 ratings
- Studio
- Abandon Pictures, Coup d'Etat Films, Sandbar Pictures, Priority Pictures, IFC FIlms
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