Plot & Summary
The Experiment is a remake of Oliver Hirschbiegel’s 2001 film Das Experiment, which was based on Mario Giordano’s book Black Box, which itself was inspired by the 1971 Stanford prison experiment. Both the 2001 film and the new movie focus on a couple dozen men who volunteer for a simulated prison experiment. The men are assigned the role of either guard or prisoner presumably to study the effects of power and control on their psyches and behavior. The new movie may mark the first time a straight-to-video release was designated despite the presence of two Oscar winning actors; Adrien Brody (The Pianist, 2002) and Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland, 2006). Brody plays Travis, an out of work nurse’s aide who volunteers for the experiment, for which he expects to be paid handsomely, and after which he plans to go to India and hook up with his new girlfriend (Maggie Grace). Barris (Whitaker), who comes to the interviews and arrives at the “prison” in a suit, makes a point of defining his moral values in terms of his strong religious upbringing. 
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