“Anesthesia” (** out of four) was an ambitious but uneven drama that recalls the stylings of early Woody Allen and Robert Altman about the intersection of many different lives in NYC; a Columbia University professor (Sam Waterston) who is retiring and his supportive wife (Glenn Close), a young girl (Kristin Stewart) who is lashing out at the world by hurting herself, a drug abuser (K. Todd Freeman) who is hospitalized but still refuses to change his life, etc. Disjointed and uninvolving for the first half but film begins to get more potent and affecting in its second half but just as it draws you in, its wrap-up is abrupt and disappointing. Film doesn’t end so much as stop. Waterston and Freeman are strong; Stewart is her usual one-note expressive self.