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Release Date
USA: Oct 21, 2005
DVD Release Date
R1: Mar 28, 2006
Budget USD 50,000,000
BoxOffice: $3.3M
Official Website:
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MPAA Rating
Rated R for language and some disturbing images.
Running Time
1 hour, 39 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
New Regency Pictures, Epsilon Motion Pictures, Regency Enterprises
Studio 20th Century Fox
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Other Titles
• Stay (2005)
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Genre: Thriller, Drama
Tagline: You Can't Stay Between the Living and the Dead.
Plot: In the space between desire and fear, between reality and illusion, between life and death lies a whole other alternate world that is brought to life in the mind-bending thriller STAY. From the acclaimed director of the award-winning Monster's Ball and Finding Neverland, Marc Forster, comes this moving and mesmerizing double story that plunges beneath the surface of ordinary experience to take a man on a spiraling descent through the mysteries of identity, dreams and the very fabric of existence.STAY appears at face value to be the suspenseful story of dedicated New York psychiatrist Sam Foster (EWAN McGREGOR) and his urgent attempt to stop a secretive and unusual young patient he inherited, Henry Lethem (RYAN GOSLING), from carrying out a planned suicide on the eve of his 21st birthday. But behind the primary tale of STAY lies a far more unsettling and surreal mystery: that of the reality-shattering effect that investigating Henry starts to have on Sam. As Sam is drawn deeper into the web of Henry's life -- and then into the labyrinth of his subconscious -- at first it simply puts stress on Sam's relationship with his artist girlfriend and former patient Lila (NAOMI WATTS). But soon Sam's own tightly-held grip on the rational world begins to melt away. Faced with increasingly
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The strategy is not underlined. The movie is facile and quick in its editing, and I'm sure another viewing would reveal transitions I missed.  --Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
Some people find this twisty and twisted psychological thriller arty and pretentious. I find it arty and provocative. Whichever way you go, you will find yourself in thrall to Naomi Watts.  --Peter Travers (Rolling Stone)
With its philosophic ponderings going belly up, STAY overstays its welcome and makes its audience long for something that might be short on erudition, but long on entertainment.  --Andrea Chase (Killer Movie Reviews)
Maybe some people will enjoy trying to get their brains around this movie, but in the end the result proves not worth the trouble. And most people who go to see Stay will certainly feel the urge to ignore the title and leave ASAP--no doubt grumbling angrily as they rush up the aisle. F--Frank Swietek
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| Directed by |
Marc Forster
Finding Neverland, Monster's Ball, Stranger Than Fiction |
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| Cast |
Ewan McGregor
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones |
 | Ryan Gosling
The Notebook, Remember the Titans, Murder by Numbers |
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 | Bob Hoskins
Brazil, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Enemy at the Gates |
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 | B.D. Wong
Jurassic Park, Mulan, Seven Years in Tibet |
 | Kate Burton
The Ice Storm, Big Trouble in Little China, Unfaithful | |
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The movie drones on about art without even approaching decent trash. Actually, ''Stay" is obsessed with bad art and in a way that seems reflexive but is merely wishful. It's worse than bad. It's mediocre.  --Wesley Morris (Boston Globe)
By the time Stay gets around to explaining everything, I didn't really care enough about the characters to make one last attempt to peer through the veils of dour atmosphere and muddled points of view. D+--Robert Denerstein
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