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Atmospheric Stylized Contemplative Gloomy Suspenseful Mind Bending Tense
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Psychological Doctors and Patients Mind and Soul Unfulfillment Power Relations Mentally Unstable Obsessive Quest Race Against Time more...
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Thriller Drama Mystery
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Contemporary 21st Century
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New York USA
Style:
Twists and Turns Surreal
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Stay, 2005

Starring: Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts

Directed by: Marc Forster

Written by: David Benioff

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 99 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:6.8

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The mood of Stay is atmospheric, stylized, and mind bending. The plot centers around doctors and patients, power relations, and themes of unfulfillment. It is a thriller, drama, and mystery movie. Stylistically, Stay is surreal and involves twists and turns. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The setting is New York. Stay happens in contemporary times. Note that it includes profanity and violent content.

Summary of Stay

A psychological thriller that glides on the gossamer threads of dream and interpersonal connection, STAY recalls MEMENTO and THE SIXTH SENSE in both its intensity and its ability to keep the audience guessing. Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor) is a young psychiatrist who is filling in for a colleague on leave. Among his new patients is Henry Letham (a brooding Ryan Gosling), a young art student who hears voices and is seriously contemplating suicide. This resonates strongly with Sam, who rescued his painter girlfriend, Lila (Naomi Watts), from a wrist-slashing. The extremely volatile Henry begins to threaten Sam's hold on his own sanity, as he races against time to figure out the truth about Henry's past, the source of his troubles, and the cause of the seemingly unexplainable things that are happening to both of them. Sam investigates the ghostly figures of Henry's life, including Athena (Elizabeth Reaser), the girl Henry loved, and also his parents (Bob Hoskins and Kate Burton), uncovering ever more disturbing idiosyncrasies along the way.

Director Marc Forster (FINDING NEVERLAND, MONSTER'S BALL) delivers possibly the most thought-provoking film of 2005, with a head-spinning conclusion that, upon contemplation, proves highly satisfying. The three lead actors are unfailingly compelling in a story that's both exciting and spiritually rewarding. It unfolds against a palette of cool gray, with scenes that slide into one another, and a mise-en-scène that, for the observant viewer, is full of reflections and clues.

Details

Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	18 October 2005
Runtime:	99 min

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Ewan McGregor

as Dr. Sam Foster

Naomi Watts

as Lila Culpepper

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Ewan McGregor in Stay (2005)

Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts in Stay (2005)

Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor in Stay (2005)

Ewan McGregor and Ryan Gosling in Stay (2005)

Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and director Marc Forster on the set of Stay (2005)

Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor in Stay (2005)

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Chicago Tribune

Despite the actors, the visuals and Forster's directorial swagger, the movie lacks impact. Full Review

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by: Michael Wilmington

The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Stay is all dressed up with no place to go, an eye-popping exercise in lavish style unattached to any discernible content. Full Review

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by: Rick Groen

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Far better than I expected. A challenging narrative structure deftly handled, so that the end seems inevitable only in retrospect. Hauntingly beautiful in moments, particularly in the penultimate sequence on the Brooklyn Bridge, and heartbreaking in... Read and rate it

06.October.2009
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by: Clarence
Clarence rated this movie8/10Great

Well-crafted, visually sleek thriller about a psychiatrist racing against time to prevent a young patient from committing suicide. Or is it? From quite early on, convoluted sequences, repetitive tellltale clues and the general air of surreality... Read and rate it

23.March.2009
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by: Kymberli
Kymberli rated this movie7/10Good

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