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Anesthesia

  • 2015
  • R
  • 1h 30m
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6.1/10
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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.

  • 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
    • 42User reviews
    • 41Critic reviews
    • 55Metascore
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    Top Cast49

    Sam Waterston
    Sam Waterston
    • Walter Zarrow
    Kristen Stewart
    Kristen Stewart
    • Sophie
    Corey Stoll
    Corey Stoll
    • Sam
    Ivan Goris
    Ivan Goris
    • Ignacio
    Rob Morgan
    Rob Morgan
    • Parnell
    Mickey Sumner
    Mickey Sumner
    • Nicole
    Kaipo Schwab
    Kaipo Schwab
    • Tenant
    Tim Blake Nelson
    Tim Blake Nelson
    • Adam
    Philip Ettinger
    Philip Ettinger
    • Roger
    • (as Phil Ettinger)
    Gretchen Mol
    Gretchen Mol
    • Sarah
    Natasha Gregson Wagner
    Natasha Gregson Wagner
    • Marta
    Erica Cho
    • Teacher
    Jacqueline Baum
    • Allie
    Ekaterina Samsonov
    Ekaterina Samsonov
    • Angie
    Hannah Marks
    Hannah Marks
    • Ella
    Ben Konigsberg
    Ben Konigsberg
    • Hal
    K. Todd Freeman
    K. Todd Freeman
    • Joe
    Michael Kenneth Williams
    Michael Kenneth Williams
    • 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 proved 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.
      • [the class applauds, stands, and cheers]
      • Prof. Walter Zarrow: 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.,
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    Details

    • 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

    • Gross US & Canada
      • $32,163
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $6,747
      • Jan 10, 2016
    • Gross worldwide
      • $78,270
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Tech specs

    • Runtime
      • 1h 30m(90 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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