IFC Films and MPI Home Video will release on Blu-ray Kyle Patrick Alvarez's film The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015), starring Olivia Thirlby, Ezra Miller, Thomas Mann, Billy Crudup, and Callan McAuliffe. The release will be available for purchase on January 12, 2016.
Synopsis: What happens when a college psych study goes shockingly wrong? In this tense, psychological thriller based on the notorious true story, Billy Crudup stars as Stanford University professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who, in 1971, cast 24 student volunteers as prisoners and guards in a simulated jail to examine the source of abusive behavior in the prison system. The results astonished the world, as participants went from middle-class undergrads to drunk-with-power sadists and submissive victims in just a few days. Winner of two awards at the Sundance Film Festival, including Best Screenplay, and created with the close participation of Dr. Zimbardo himself, The Stanford Prison Experiment is a chilling, edge-of-your-seat thriller about the dark side of power and the effects of imprisonment.