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Stay (2005) -- This movie focuses on the attempts of a psychiatrist to prevent one of his patients from committing suicide while trying to maintain his own grip on reality.
Stay (2005) -- Clip: Talk to me, Beth
Stay (2005) -- This movie focuses on the attempts of a psychiatrist to prevent one of his patients from committing suicide while trying to maintain his own grip on reality.
Stay (2005) -- Clip: Nothing makes sense

Overview

User Rating:
6.8/10   21,367 votes
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Director:
Marc Forster
Writer (WGA):
David Benioff (written by)
Contact:
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Release Date:
21 October 2005 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Mystery | Thriller more
Tagline:
You Can't Stay Between the Living and the Dead. more
Plot:
This movie focuses on the attempts of a psychiatrist to prevent one of his patients from committing suicide while trying to maintain his own grip on reality. full summary | add synopsis
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A New Kind of Film more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Ewan McGregor ... Dr. Sam Foster

Ryan Gosling ... Henry Letham
Kate Burton ... Mrs. Letham

Naomi Watts ... Lila Culpepper

Elizabeth Reaser ... Athena

Bob Hoskins ... Dr. Leon Patterson

Janeane Garofalo ... Dr. Beth Levy
B.D. Wong ... Dr. Ren
John Tormey ... Custodian / Piano Mover #1
José Ramón Rosario ... Cabbie / Piano Mover #2
Becky Ann Baker ... Paramedic #1 / Butch Cook
Lisa Kron ... Paramedic #2
Gregory Mitchell ... Dance Instructor
John Dominici ... Boy / Young Henry

Jessica Hecht ... Boy's Mother
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for language and some disturbing images.
Runtime:
99 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital
Certification:
Australia:M | Mexico:B15 | Czech Republic:15 | Netherlands:12 | Argentina:13 | Norway:15 | Germany:12 | Singapore:PG | Finland:K-15 | Hungary:16 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | Canada:14+ (Ontario) | Iceland:16 | South Korea:15 | Spain:18 | Malaysia:U (DVD) | Brazil:14 | UK:15 (original rating) (cut) | UK:18 (video rating) (uncut) | USA:TV-MA (cable rating) | USA:R

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Trivia:
At one point, David Fincher was attached to direct. more
Goofs:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When, Leon (Henry's father) was talking to Sam after his eyes opened, he said that "The first time I can see everything" and also "I always thought you have brown eyes". If a man didn't see anything in his entire life (he is blind), how can he know colors? more
Quotes:
Sam Foster: I've read your file.
Henry Letham: Well can I read your file?
Sam Foster: Tell me why you're here.
Henry Letham: I thought you read the file.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Writing the Music for 'Stay' (2006) (V) more
Soundtrack:
These Eyes more

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201 out of 347 people found the following comment useful:-
A New Kind of Film, 14 February 2005
10/10
Author: chihhsing@aol.com from Los Angeles, CA

It is a truism that film, as a photographic medium, intrinsically resists the psychological. In the hands of a less gifted director, this would have been equally true of STAY, despite its overt plot in which a professor of psychiatry struggles to find a psychological clue in order to prevent a young artist from committing suicide at a precise time and location the artist has planned.

But without altering this plot as written, director Marc Forster has invented an editing style (combined with a rigorous control of transitions and point of view) to create nothing less than a parallel plot to the film, in which the professor must contend with the horror of his own descent into full-blown psychosis.

Since the director conveys this parallel plot entirely through visual means, and within the point of view of the hero of the story, its consequences are all the more disconcerting, and we feel the terror of the realization of losing one's mind more acutely than in any previous screen depiction of madness I have seen.

Much as the young artist's psychotic identity implicitly consumes the identity of his psychiatrist, so does the visual plot consume the overt, written plot of the film, like an unconscious motivation that overcomes a conscious one. By succeeding with such an ambitious design, Forster has invented a new kind of film in which the psychological, in all its frightening depths, finally becomes visible.

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