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Stay (2005)
Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor), a psychiatrist, has a new patient, college student Henry Letham (Ryan Gosling), who claims to be suicidal. Henry plans to kill himself in three days, unless Sam can save him.
28 June 1965, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
26 October 1942, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, UK
28 September 1968, Shoreham, Kent, England, UK
26 November 1939, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
17 February 1953, Fort Knox, Kentucky, USA
March 30, 2011
It is both straightforward and abstract, using cinematic tricks to put the audience in Sam/Henry's headspace. The result is a bit a sense of intentional vertigo that may cloud the films ultimately humanist point.
October 21, 2005
S lot of talent gets expended in Stay. (I'm not including whoever dressed McGregor.) Too bad the movie they made, while effective in short spurts, is almost a complete waste of time.
October 11, 2006
Ultimately the film delivers such a weak payoff that it makes nearly everything that came before it seem rather pointless.
August 06, 2007
The effect is something indescribably cinematic, as the inner mechanics of the mind's eye are vividly translated onto the big screen. Beautiful, haunting and ultimately transcendent...
April 19, 2009
Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling all lower their box office merit with this unbaked psychological thriller about a suicidal man (Gosling) taunting his eccentric psychologist (McGregor) after surviving a horrible car accident.
October 27, 2005
In Marc Forster's humorless thriller, going insane is an exciting, luxurious affair.
March 01, 2007
Stay wants to be good, creepy fun, but by the middle of the film, I was so uninterested in the plot I became obsessed with McGregor's pants
October 24, 2005
There's a lot of talent at work here from the cast to the screenwriter to the director and the visuals, but it's all so arbitrary and cheap and the payoff is so, so lame.
October 21, 2005
It's all very deep, but in a tricked-up, art-directed sort of way.
October 29, 2005
Stay is interesting, but it's hard to recommend to anyone but the small cadre of David Lynch devotees who will inhale anything with a whiff of similarity to their favorite auteur's scent.
April 29, 2009
A sappy melodrama touted in a supernatural angle...