In the early 1960s, during the CIA's secret and illegal human experimentation programMK-Ultra,[a] Dr. Ford Strauss (Anson Mount), a psychiatrist, is attempting to get medical LSD testings approved; his moral and scientific boundaries are pushed to the limit, as he is approached by CIA agent Galvin Morgan (Jason Patric) to run a subsect of the program in a rural Mississippi psychiatric hospital. As he conducts the experiments on a drug addict, an arsonist, a transgender woman, and an animal killer, Dr. Strauss begins to question Agent Morgan’s ethics and disentangles an incomprehensible conspiracy.[3][4][5][6]
Formerly titled Midnight Climax,[7][8]MK Ultra is the third feature film directed by Joseph Sorrentino,[1] who previously comes from an Intelligence Operations background.[2] He wrote the film based on a true story about the illegal human experimentation programProject MK-Ultra,[9][10] conducted by Central Intelligence Agency in the 1960s.[11][12] The film is produced by LB Entertainment and Ten Past Nine Productions with Suzy Bergner, Tom Rooker and Sigurjon Sighvatsson as executive producers.[11]
Release
The official trailer has been released on August 31, 2022.[13] The film was released theatrically, and on video on demand on October 7, 2022[7] in the United States through Cinedigm,[11] and worldwide through Bleiberg Entertainment.[14]
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