Probably the most unnerving presentation at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Compliance provides a chilling snapshot of the blurred line between personal reason and obsequious consent to authority — a story all the more unsettling because of its rooting in fact. In writer-director Craig Zobel’s movie, Sandra (Ann Dowd), the high-strung manager at a small town fast food restaurant, finds her Friday rush further complicated when a man, Officer Daniels (Pat Healy), phones to tell her that a pretty young employee, Becky (Dreama Walker), has stolen money from a customer. Convinced she’s doing what’s right, Sandra commences the investigation, following step-by-step instructions from the police officer on the other end of the line and authorizing others to do the same, no matter how invasive the requests become. I recently had a chance to speak to Zobel, Walker and Healy, one-on-three, about their collaboration and the unlikely educational inspiration found in Cops. The conversation is excerpted over at ShockYa, so click here for the read. For a review of the movie, meanwhile, click here.