The Experiment

Everyone has a breaking point.

The Experiment is a remake of the powerful German psychological thriller movie Das Experiment. A group of ordinary men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners as part of a psychological research study examining how the effects of assigned roles, power and control affect the participants. Travis (Adrien Brody) plays the de facto leader of the prisoners, where Barris (Forest Whitaker) is a guard corrupted by the power he’s been given. Values are tested and lines are crossed when seemingly normal participants are pushed to the breaking point as the experiment spirals out of control.