The Sundance drama about famed psychologist Stanley Milgram promises illusion and deception.

Writer-director Frank Whaley, primarily a busy film and TV actor ("Field of Dreams," "Ray Donovan"), has crafted a tender, evocative tale of an unlikely friendship in his fourth outing behind the camera, "Like Sunday, Like Rain."

You never know how one meeting will change your life forever. 

Leighton Meester of “Gossip Girl” acquits herself quite well in “Like Sunday, Like Rain,” and so does a young newcomer named Julian Shatkin. 

Michael Almereyda dissects the life and work of controversial psychologist Stanley Milgram in a highly stylized biopic worthy of its subject.

Odds are, you would have followed instructions too.

Among the most original selections this year are Michael Almereyda’s “Experimenter,” a conceptually exciting, intellectually searching portrait of the social psychologist Stanley Milgram (a superb Peter Sarsgaard), whose famous 1960s obedience experiments, in which subjects delivered punishing shocks on command, were later condemned.