
At a fast food restaurant, the manager, Sandra, is having a bad day. Suddenly, she gets a phone call from a man claiming to be a police officer who has a complaint that one of her young female employees has stolen from a customer. At the orders of this authoritative sounding stranger, Sandra takes the apparent accused, Becky, to a back room to search her before she is picked up. Once there, the phone scammer manipulates the gullible personnel into participating in Becky's sex... (Full plot summary below)
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At a fast food restaurant, the manager, Sandra, is having a bad day. Suddenly, she gets a phone call from a man claiming to be a police officer who has a complaint that one of her young female employees has stolen from a customer. At the orders of this authoritative sounding stranger, Sandra takes the apparent accused, Becky, to a back room to search her before she is picked up. Once there, the phone scammer manipulates the gullible personnel into participating in Becky's sexual humiliation that grows more twisted with every new sucker on the phone. Only when one final person has the conscience to revolt do they realize the crime they were tricked into, which the real police are hard pressed to solve.
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| Seattle TimesSoren AndersenOne watches in horrified fascination, and a greater horror comes when one realizes that, placed in the same kind of situation, one might react in the same way. |
| The AtlanticChristopher OrrUltimately what is fascinating about Compliance is its suggestion of the near-universality, and ultimate mundanity, of the totalitarian reflex. |
| Boston PhoenixGerald PearyA thoroughly disturbing, sometimes mean-spirited indie narrative film. |
| Seattle TimesSoren AndersonOne watches in horrified fascination, and a greater horror comes when one realizes that, placed in the same kind of situation, one might react in the same way. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneJim Brunzell IIIZobel's masterful direction and screenplay heighten the distress of authority figures possessing unseen persuasion over naive employees, exposing a disturbing and haunting look at what some workers are willing to do in order to follow orders. |
| CinemaDopeGlenn Lovell... a sadomasochistic mind-trip ... It has the lingering impact of a gruesome freeway pileup ‒ you don't want to look, but you can't help yourself. |
| Cinema SightWesley LovellA frightening look at the power of authority and the human desire to avoid conflict. |
| New York PostFarran Smith NehmeThe actors in Compliance perform with thorough and chilling sincerity. |
| Reason OnlineKurt LoderThe picture has a calm neutrality that makes the unpleasant events we witness even more disturbing. |
| Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniA taut, understated minimalist masterwork. |