Official EXPERIMENTER Trailer and Clip Experience the official EXPERIMENTER trailer and clip! The film, written and directed by Michael Almereyda (Cymbeline), stars Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Anton Yelchin, John Leguizamo, Anthony Edwards, Dennis Haysbert, Jim Gaffigan, and Lori Singer. EXPERIMENTER will be released in theaters next Friday. Experimenter is based on the true story of famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram, who in 1961 conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans willingness to obey by using electric shock. We follow Milgram, from meeting his wife Sasha through his controversial experiments that sparked public outcry.