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Opened August 17, 2012
1 hr 30 min
R | Language and sexual content/nudity
A fast-food worker (Dreama Walker) who's accused of theft is put through the wringer as her boss (Ann Dowd), at the direction of a phone caller who says he's a cop, subjects her to increasingly harsh forms of interrogation. Full synopsis
Cast: Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy, Bill Camp, Philip Ettinger, Ashlie Atkinson
Director: Craig Zobel
Genres: Suspense/Thriller

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Don't go!

by mjlilo

I was intrigued by the trailer and expected a psychological thriller (or a at least a decent character development with a decent story). However, the smartest part of this movie was when 10-15 people...

You will want to close your eyes - but can't!

by hmilgrom

This is a very, very difficult film to watch. I knew the plot prior to seeing it, and was curious about the story. It's based on an actual event that occurred at a McDonald's in Kentucky in 2004....

I'll Pass

Dr. Milgram would understand

by everyweek60706

There is a famous psycological experiment where subjects were ordered to administer a shock to a (fake, but real as far as they knew) subject in another room. Many went on through the cries of agony...

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New York Post

The actors in Compliance perform with thorough and chilling sincerity. Read full review

Entertainment Weekly

| Lisa Schwarzbaum

With a slow, relentless buildup focused on sexual humiliation, Compliance intensifies the "requests" put on Sandra, and eventually other employees, to behave immorally in the name of cooperation. Read full review

Philadelphia Inquirer

| Tirdad Derakhshani

A taut, understated minimalist masterwork. Read full review

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| James Berardinelli

The truth can indeed be stranger than fiction and, in this case, were the story to have originated in the imagination of the screenwriter, it could rightfully be criticized as artificial and contrived. But, disturbing and unlikely as it may be, this stuff actually happened, and pretty much as Craig Zobel relates it. Read full review

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