Based on a true story, the provocative indie film Compliance has caused walkouts and post-screening shouting matches. Marlow Stern examines the real-life incidents that inspired the film and speaks ...

The script was inspired by a 2004 incident that took place at a McDonalds in Mount Washington, Ky. During a busy evening, the eatery's manager, Donna Summers, received a call from a man claiming to be ...

If you've heard of the indie film Compliance, odds are you've heard it described as controversial. When it debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January it was met with engaged and sometimes ...

At its Sundance premiere, Compliance was criticized by at least one vocal audience member for plumbing sexual abuse for “entertainment.” But there's a difference between a film about exploitation and ...

For a good portion of Craig Zobel’s twisted new single-setting drama, “Compliance,” I had difficulty believing what was happening. The film, which is based on a true story, depicts a busy night at a ...

NEW YORK -- Halfway through a special screening of "Compliance," the deeply unsettling new film from writer/director Craig Zobel, a woman stood up, yelled out, "Give me a f*cking break," and walked ...

Craig Zobel's "Compliance" strives to show how readily we human beings will follow the dictates of a supposed authority figure, even when compliance involves performing perverse acts or inflicting ...

“Compliance” is a hard film to watch and impossible to forget, a disturbing portrait of blind obedience to authority that resonates because not only could the movie happen, it did. Writer/director ...

On the eve of a landmark deal for a major tech startup, they’re faced with a sexual assault controversy that threatens to become a PR disaster. As new hire Sam works to contain the fallout, it becomes ...

The harried owner of a fast-food joint (Ann Dowd), preparing her staff for a big night’s business, gets rung by the police and told that Becky (Dreama Walker), the pretty young thing behind the ...