Anesthesia (2015)

Drama, General Film, Thriller

Director: Tim Blake Nelson

Writer(s): Tim Blake Nelson

Starring: Sam Waterston, Ivan Goris, Rob Morgan, Corey Stoll, Mickey Sumner, Kaipo Schwab, Tim Blake Nelson, Kristen Stewart, Philip Ettinger, Gretchen Mol, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Erica Cho, Jacqueline Baum, Ekaterina Samsonov, Hannah Marks, Ben Konigsberg, K. Todd Freeman, Michael Kenneth Williams, J. Bernard Calloway, Jessica Hecht, Cameron Taylor, Scott Cohen, Lee Wilkof, Gloria Reuben, Glenn Close, Yul Vazquez, Julia Morrison, Erika Rose, Katie Chang, Lisa Benavides-Nelson, Richard Thomas, Patrick Kerr, Annie Parisse, G. Michelle Robinson, David Aaron Baker, Cliff Moylan, Keith Randolph Smith, Denise Burse, Lucas Hedges, Derrick Baskin, John McNamara, Marcus Callender, Christopher McCann, Ana Marie Calise, Korey Jackson, Kenneth Kopolovicz, Doris McCarthy, Casey Roberts, Nina Rosenthal

Synopsis: Philosophy professor Walter Zarrow is wounded during a mugging. In an effort to escape he rings buzzers indiscriminately, waking Sam, a middle aged father of two having an affair in the city. Sam reluctantly answers Zarrow’s pleas, and Zarrow loses consciousness in his arms. Through an exploration of why these men, along with the mugger, and an addict named Joe, come together, we explore New York City. The experience of Zarrow, Sam, Joe and Zarrow’s assailant ripple quickly out to include the connected lives of a housewife struggling with alcoholism, a stoner teen desperate to lose his virginity, a brilliant but failed writer fighting addiction, two parents confronting the prospect of terminal illness, and a brilliant grad student who wounds herself to feel alive.

Release Date: January 8, 2016 (USA) | Length: 90 min | Genre: Drama, Thriller | MPAA Rating: Rated R for language, sexual content, drug use and brief violence.