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Anesthesia

  • 20152015
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  • 1h 30m
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Anesthesia (2015)
Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.
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Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.
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  • Director
    • Tim Blake Nelson
  • Writer
    • Tim Blake Nelson
  • Stars
    • Sam Waterston
    • Kristen Stewart
    • Corey Stoll
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  • Director
    • Tim Blake Nelson
  • Writer
    • Tim Blake Nelson
  • Stars
    • Sam Waterston
    • Kristen Stewart
    • Corey Stoll
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    • 40User reviews
    • 41Critic reviews
    • 55Metascore
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    Lisa Benavides, Ben Konigsberg, Gloria Reuben, Hannah Marks, Tim Blake Nelson, Glenn Close, Sam Waterston, Gretchen Mol, Mickey Sumner at event for Anesthesia
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    Sam Waterston
    Sam Waterston
    • Walter Zarrowas Walter Zarrow
    Kristen Stewart
    Kristen Stewart
    • Sophieas Sophie
    Corey Stoll
    Corey Stoll
    • Samas Sam
    Gretchen Mol
    Gretchen Mol
    • Sarahas Sarah
    Ivan Goris
    • Ignacioas Ignacio
    Rob Morgan
    Rob Morgan
    • Parnellas Parnell
    Mickey Sumner
    Mickey Sumner
    • Nicoleas Nicole
    Kaipo Schwab
    Kaipo Schwab
    • Tenantas Tenant
    Tim Blake Nelson
    Tim Blake Nelson
    • Adamas Adam
    Philip Ettinger
    Philip Ettinger
    • Rogeras Roger
    • (as Phil Ettinger)
    Natasha Gregson Wagner
    Natasha Gregson Wagner
    • Martaas Marta
    Erica Cho
    Erica Cho
    • Teacheras Teacher
    Jacqueline Baum
    • Allieas Allie
    Ekaterina Samsonov
    Ekaterina Samsonov
    • Angieas Angie
    Hannah Marks
    Hannah Marks
    • Ellaas Ella
    Ben Konigsberg
    Ben Konigsberg
    • Halas Hal
    K. Todd Freeman
    K. Todd Freeman
    • Joeas Joe
    Michael Kenneth Williams
    Michael Kenneth Williams
    • Jeffreyas Jeffrey
    • (as Michael K. Williams)
    • Director
      • Tim Blake Nelson
    • Writer
      • Tim Blake Nelson
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    • Trivia
      The film wasn't announced by trade publications until after college students spotted Kristen Stewart filming on their campus in New York City.
    • Quotes

      Prof. Walter Zarrow: But then, what do all these thinkers we've examined this semester have in common? If we truly explore to find a common thread? At the outset of a century that would constitute the bloodiest in human history. Along with scientific and technological advancements that would literally make us like Gods. Even as we began to dismantle the very meaning of God. They ask, what is a life? Does to live any longer have a how? Does it any longer have a why? Against a backdrop of industrialization, people will contend with alienation, dislocation, population on a mass scale, and murder on a mass scale. They'll consider the constraints of truth. Whether metaphor or paradigm, with many concluding actual truth has never existed. A nexus in the great human saga, when we dared to trade the organizing bliss, of good and evil, right and wrong, as determined by a creator for other opiates: communism, socialism, capitalism, psychology, technology, any learnable system to replace what had begun to evaporate: the 20th century. My own. But also the one into which each of you was born. For many, an era of hope liberation, possibility. For others of abandonment and despair. A most human century in which we begin really to understand that Nietzsche was right: we are beautifully, finally, achingly, alone. In this void, philosophy at its worst becomes self-reflective, linguistic, semantic, relativism having rendered any discussion of right and wrong, good and evil, to be the quaint concerns of another age. At its most provocative, it asks other questions. Those concerned with locating our stranded selves, when meaning seems to have died, nothing less, in short, then 'why do we live at all?' and 'what makes us who we are?' They ask, 'what now?' And we're still asking it. What will fortify us as another century, your century, commences? Do we abandon finally the search for truths that seem ever more elusive, even silly to some? The ethical? The moral? The good? Principles that by definition can never be prove when so much now can be proved? Or is all this finally and forever pointless? Are we done? We can destroy cities, alter the planet irreversibly, speak instantaneously face-to-face from across the globe, create life where there was to be none, even while intoxicating ourselves with it all. And yet, how do we still seek purpose? And where do we hope to find it if we're so busy convincing ourselves there needn't be any? And so we wander, eyes closed to the dark, while technology, science, medicine and godlessness blaze illusions around us, with less to guide us now than ever, seemingly omnipotent, but more human and just as afraid. These quandaries do not end with this course in a week from today. They begin. And I certainly haven't taught these writers for 30 years just so you can drop references to existential thinkers and their antecedents at dinner parties. The crowd is untruth. In an era darkened by the false shade of imperviousness, you and those who pause to question, carry the light. It's been a wonderful 34 years. Let's not be strangers, either to one another, or more importantly, to everything we've learned from one another. May your best years be yet to come. And so for us all.

      [all applauding]

      Prof. Walter Zarrow: [all cheering] Thank you, thank you, thank you.

    • Connections
      Referenced in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Kristen Stewart/Michael Shannon/Cage the Elephant (2016)
    • Soundtracks
      Tenderly
      Performed by Bill Evans

      Written By Walter Gross and Jack Lawrence

      Used by Permission of Edwin H. Morris & Company,

      A Division of MPL Music Publishing, Inc.,

      and Range Road Music, Inc.

    User reviews40

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    Top review
    5/10
    disappointingly predictable and self-indulgent
    I found this film to be disappointingly predictable and a self- indulgent piece of "entertainment".It would have been more entertaining to watch paint drying - and about as easy to guess the next scene. The characters were all two-dimensional and lacking in any depth.

    One detail that particularly irritated me was the lecturing manner - and content - of the supposed Columbia University philosophy professor. He addressed his class in a manner that no real lecturer would, speaking in over-written prose found only in bad novels - and poorer made-for-TV films. The subjects matter he seemed to cover was so eclectic and with such a tenuous connection to any school of philosophy that I wondered if the script writer was having a joke at the audience's - or academia's - expense.

    The concept of one incident linking various disparate individuals, and thus illustrating aspects of life - or in this case New York city - is so over-used that it will now only succeed with a better than average script. Unfortunately, despite the reasonably capable cast, this was a forlorn exercise.
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    • Jan 16, 2016

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    • Release date
      • January 8, 2016 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Crímenes y virtudes
    • Filming locations
      • New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies
      • Grand Schema
      • Hello Please
      • Nicholson International Pictures
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $32,163
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $6,747
      • Jan 10, 2016
    • Gross worldwide
      • $78,270
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 30 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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