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The Stanford Prison Experiment
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2015·122 min·Dir. Kyle Patrick Alvarez·★ 6.8
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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.

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