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Anesthesia
Directed by
Tim Blake Nelson
R
2016
90m
Drama
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6.1
27%
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Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.
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Cast of Anesthesia
Sam Waterston
Prof. Walter Zarrow
Tim Blake Nelson
Adam Zarrow / Director / Writer / Producer
Kristen Stewart
Sophie
Glenn Close
Marcia Zarrow
Corey Stoll
Sam
Katie Chang
Amy
Michael Kenneth Williams
Jeffrey
Gretchen Mol
Sarah
Mickey Sumner
Nicole
Jessica Hecht
Jill
David Aaron Baker
Devlin
J. Bernard Calloway
Cedar Lemons
Derrick Baskin
Medical Examiner
Jacqueline Baum
Allie
Ana Marie Calise
Student
Erica Cho
Teacher
Scott Cohen
Dr. Laffer
Philip Ettinger
Roger
K. Todd Freeman
Joe
Ivan Goris
Ignacio
Natasha Gregson Wagner
Marta
Korey Jackson
Actor
Ben Konigsberg
Hal
Hannah Marks
Ella Zarrow
Rob Morgan
Parnell
Julia Morrison
Shani
Cliff Moylan
Bailiff
Annie Parisse
Rachel
Gloria Reuben
Meredith
Casey Roberts
Student
G. Michelle Robinson
Gracie
Erika Rose
Waitress
Nina Rosenthal
Waitress
Ekaterina Samsonov
Angie
Cameron Taylor
Nurse
Yul Vazquez
Dr. Edward Barnes
Lee Wilkof
Ray Eisenberg
Lucas Hedges
Greg
Zenon Zeleniuch
Hospital Visitor
Doris McCarthy
Diner Lady (uncredited)
Julie Buck
Producer
Josh Hetzler
Producer
John Molli
Producer
Christopher J. Scott
Producer
Anesthesia Ratings & Reviews
Philadelphia Inquirer
Molly Eichel
The irony of Anesthesia is that, while it uses interconnectivity as a storytelling mechanism, the characters do not really connect.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Stewart stands out because her one big scene seems so passionate and genuine. It's the only moment when "Anesthesia" seems to be working.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
A grand gesture going nowhere.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
A stellar cast of serious-minded players...fight a losing battle against the characters' overwritten dialogue and unlikely behavior.
Newcity
Ray Pride
ake, drink, this is the thesis to my sketch drama: "The world has just become so inhuman. Everyone's plugged in, blindingly inarticulate, obsessed with money, their careers, stupidly, arrogantly content. I crave interaction, but you just can't any more."
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
A discourse on existential angst in the modern world, the ensemble piece comes across as sadly familiar, and as emotionally desiccated as its pallid characters.
Observer
Rex Reed
A pile of incomprehensible existential gibberish by the vastly untalented actor-writer-director Tim Blake Nelson about the meaning of life in an age of technology, told in the tiresome style of multiple characters who intersect at odd angles ...
Common Sense Media
S. Jhoanna Robledo
People seek escape through self-medication in somber drama.
Blu-ray.com
Brian Orndorf
Stiff and unsatisfying, "Anesthesia" doesn't snap together profoundly, straining to reach a sophisticated examination of desperation and confusion while it offers tedious dramatics typically found in a Lifetime Movie.
Film School Rejects
Rob Hunter
There's nothing wrong w/purely observational dramas or straightforward character pieces, but the drama we're given here is stale and lifeless, and the characters even more so.
RogerEbert.com
Simon Abrams
I want to recommend Nelson's film in spite of how misconceived it is simply because it asks interesting questions, albeit in some of the most banal ways imaginable.
NPR
Scott Tobias
The effect of keeping the various subplots apart for so long is enormously frustrating, because we don't know what Mol's frustrated suburbanite or Stewart's morose student or Williams and Freeman's strained friendship have to do with one another.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Like few contemporary films, "Anesthesia" distills the anxious intellectual tenor of the times.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
Employs a dozen or so cardboard characters as mouthpieces for singularly unilluminating thoughts about the ways in which people struggle to bury their unhappiness.
L.A. Weekly
Amy Nicholson
I wanted more time with almost all of the subplots - I got invested in their small, relatable agonies - which is both a complaint and a compliment.
New York Post
Sara Stewart
Overall the film plays like an annotated philosophy lecture, with Nelson using various interwoven characters to flesh out Waterston's talking points.
New York Daily News
Joe Dziemianowicz
"Anesthesia" is sincere but numbing.
Slant Magazine
Clayton Dillard
Tim Blake Nelson's film immerses itself into as many pain-induced (and painful) subplots as it possibly can.
Slant Magazine
Kenji Fujishima
The characters may feel less like thesis-demonstrating pawns than Haggis's characters do, but the end result feels about as manipulative.
Variety
Guy Lodge
Tim Blake Nelson's latest directorial effort is a heartfelt but heavy-handed essay on human interaction and isolation.
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