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Stay

R

Released Oct 21, 2005

1 hr. 38 min.

Mystery & Thriller

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26%

121 Reviews

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69%

50,000+ Ratings

Audience Score

Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor), a psychiatrist, has a new patient, Henry Letham (Ryan Gosling), who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist (Janeane Garofalo) and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his parents. As reality starts to contradict fact, Sam spirals into an unstable mental state. Then he finds a clue as to how and when Henry may try to kill himself, and races to try to stop him.

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Critics Consensus

A muddled brain-teaser, Stay has a solid cast and innovative visuals but little beneath the surface.

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Selanas W

A misunderstood gem that is needed to be watched repeatedly to understand the message. Hidden diamond in the rough. Masterpiece.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/17/24

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Jalile A

Godawful film school pretentious nonsense. Thought it was gonna have a predictable Fight Club style twist but the actual ending is much worse. Meaningless, ugly, and most of all, boring. I love the sort of reality bending stuff but this just doesn't go anywhere. Totally wasted stacked cast. No wonder I had never heard of it. I rarely say it, but I wish I'd never watched this. A waste of time.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/01/24

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Derya S

Imagine talented people making a movie that utilizes all cringey aspects of early 2000's filmmaking. All the directing, writing, editing, cinematography and post "Sixth Sense" mandatory twists that were hot for a brief moment after 2000 are painfully present in Stay. And the movie has aged ( embarrassingly ) badly. Stay is the worst possible time capsule. Hated it.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/28/23

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Taara B

Complete rubbish, very bad direction, the actors play like stones, the plot is a stupid parody of Lynch + a little Fincher. The best thing in the film is the opening scene with the accident, it was well shot, but the film was a waste, I shouldn't have watched it

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/27/23

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nikos adonis p

I guess filmmakers thought the ending was genius. no, it is not

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

12/26/23

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Ulli M

style over substance and it dosent pay off.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/23/23

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Marc Forster

Director

Ewan McGregor

Dr. Sam Foster

Naomi Watts

Lila Culpepper

Ryan Gosling

Henry Letham

Elizabeth Reaser

Athena

Bob Hoskins

Dr. Leon Patterson

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Ruthe Stein

San Francisco Chronicle

Rated: 1/4

Apr 4, 2011

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Matthew Leyland

BBC.com

A head-scratching thriller...

Rated: 2/5

Sep 6, 2006

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Empire Magazine

Rated: 2/5

Apr 1, 2006

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Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

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.

Rated: 9/10

Mar 30, 2011

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

A sappy melodrama touted in a supernatural angle...

Apr 29, 2009

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

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.

Rated: D-

Apr 19, 2009

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Synopsis

Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor), a psychiatrist, has a new patient, Henry Letham (Ryan Gosling), who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist (Janeane Garofalo) and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his parents. As reality starts to contradict fact, Sam spirals into an unstable mental state. Then he finds a clue as to how and when Henry may try to kill himself, and races to try to stop him.

Director: Marc Forster
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: New Regency Pictures
Rating: R (Language|Disturbing Images)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 21, 2005, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 9, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $3.6M
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, DTS
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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