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The Experiment
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- How long is The Experiment?
- The Experiment is 1 hr 36 min long.
- Who directed The Experiment?
- Paul Scheuring
- Who is Travis in The Experiment?
- Adrien Brody plays Travis in the film.
- What is The Experiment about?
- Unemployed Travis (Adrien Brody) enrolls in a psychological role-playing experiment, where participants assume the identities of inmates and prison guards in an empty jail, with the promise of a $1,000-a-day reward. Another participant, Barris (Forest Whitaker), embraces his correctional officer role with a vengeance, and before long, the prisoners find themselves at the mercy of their keepers. All the test subjects discover how easily violence and cruelty can manifest itself in human behavior.