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B.D. Wong, Bob Hoskins, Elizabeth Reaser, Ewan McGregor, Janeane Garofalo, Kate Burton, Mark Margolis, Michael Gaston, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling

A reality-bending thriller about a psychologist whose suicidal client makes bizarre predictions that, to the psychologist's mounting terror, begin to come true. The shrink must race against time to sa...( read more  read more... )ve everything he loves before it disappears.

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  • August 22, 2009
    not sure what to make of this movie, made me feel kind of disoriented - I guess watching it while I had insomnia didn't help. Ryan Gosling is all kinds of art boy hot in this though, at least that I know for sure.
  • July 30, 2009
    Stay is a film that almost requires at least two viewings. The first will take you on a ride where you will have no idea what's going on until the last fifteen or so minutes. The second viewing will allow you to see how the film's style explains what the last fifteen minutes wi...( read more)ll reveal. It's quite frustrating, but also fascinating.
    What Stay is essentially about is how the mind pieces together life. We always form one simplified impression of a particular person, and usually that impression stays with us. Many of the characters appear to the main character in the same way he last remembers them. This film also allows its main character to come to terms with certain aspects of his life that have left him in a state of remorse, of constant grief. In a sense, Stay is a twisted redemption story. For who, I cannot say, for I would need to reveal spoilers. The less you know of this movie, the better. Hell, you won't even know what this movie is about until the last fifteen minutes.
    Some people will be turned off by this mystery-thriller. It calls to mind the work of David Lynch, mainly his masterpiece Mulholland Dr (coincidentally, the film that made Naomi Watts a star). Stay is a far lesser film than Mulholland Dr, mainly because its payoff is underwhelming. Any movie that hides its secrets for as long as Stay does can't live up to its promise. But nonetheless, Stay is fascinating to watch. It's a competent exercise in style over substance. Strangely enough, in this case, the style IS the substance.
  • July 12, 2009
    A pretty confusing, sometimes even nerve-wracking psychological thriller with an excellent cast and very interesting camera work and editing. The story follows a psychologist who is trying to save a new patient, who announces his suicide for the following weekend. As reality, pas...( read more)t and imagination starts to melt into one more and more, it requires quite some concentration on the audience's side to stay focused on the events. The hints are there, so the ending may come as a huge twist to some, but is not entirely unpredictable. In the end everyone has to make up their own mind about this. The talents included are top notch, but up until the end it left me emotionally cold, which it probably shouldn't have. Still, decent and worth checking out.
  • June 13, 2009
    A psychiatrist is assigned to a suicidal art student when the boy's regular therapist has a breakdown, and finds the case has metaphysical as well as psychological dimensions. Neatly done psychological thriller is well scripted (up until the final revelation) and is likely to im...( read more)press newcomers to the genre; unfortunately, while dedicated fans of this sort of stuff may have some fun, they're likely catch the twist early on and to have seen it executed more spectacularly before.
  • May 29, 2009
    Very interesting, but I didn't actually understand the full meaning of it until I looked up someone else's explanation of it on another site. I did like it though, especially now that I know what it all meant!
  • November 4, 2009
    I'm still trying to figure this one out.
  • October 25, 2009
    I think the director try to hard to make look this like a psychological film.
  • October 22, 2009
    A pretty intense film and really hard to understand, it had me confused all the way through as i never knew what was real and what wasn't!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • October 16, 2009
    "It's all in my head
    All my hopes and my fears
    And I lay it all out
    For you all to see and it's
    All in my head"...
    Ewan Mcgregor plays a psychiatrist with a tough case, one of his patients warns him he will take his own life in the next days. The patient is played by Ryan Gosling...( read more), as Henry, a tortured soul ( ah, just my type...) with a terrible secret.
    Somewhere in the middle of "Stay" everything gets uncanny, nothing is what's it seems, there's a line that blurs whats real from unreal, at this point the movie should've became interesting, but doesn't.
    Same problem with last year "Passengers".
    So here are the lyrics from that songs come in. Everything that we just saw was the product of someone imagination, in fact were the afterthoughts of a man in agony.
    Great idea, but the execution - not so much. Missed opportunity, in more capable hands this could have been a really good movie.
  • October 14, 2009
    What a thriller! An enjoyable visual experience- photography, cinematography, editing & transitions linking up between scenes, scenery & filming locations, etc. The scene at the strip club with slides projection & the final scene with light waves ("sprawl") at the Brooklyn Bridge...( read more) are just brilliant. Credits certainly also owing much to Ryan Gosling's indulging acting.

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