Stay

Name: Stay
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Released: October 21, 2005
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 41
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling

2005

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Mixed or average reviews based on 29 Critic Reviews

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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: October 21, 2005 | TV-MA

Starring: Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling

Summary: In this psychological thriller, a distraught young man announces to his psychiatrist that he plans to commit suicide in three days. The psychiatrist's desperate attempts to help his new patient lead him through the city on an incredible, nightmarish trip to the place between life and death. (20th Century Fox)

Director: Marc Forster

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Rating: TV-MA

Runtime: 99 min

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Roger Ebert

The ending is an explanation, but not a solution. For a solution we have to think back through the whole film, and now the visual style becomes a guide. It is an illustration of the way the materials of life can be shaped for the purposes of the moment. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

Despite the actors, the visuals and Forster's directorial swagger, the movie lacks impact. Read full review

Michael Sragow

In Stay, the director, Marc Forster, fresh from "Finding Neverland," turns Manhattan into a nightmarish dreamscape and his characters into self-destructive ghosts. Read full review

Empire Ian Nathan

The type of movie often described as a fever-dream: weird, offbeat, otherworldly… An experience that also coincides with feeling ill. Read full review

Nathan Rabin

It's become a tired cliché for characters in "serious" science-fiction movies not to realize they're dead or dying, but Stay as a film doesn't seem to realize that it's dead from the outset, an unconvincing automaton grimly going through the motions. Read full review

Kirk Honeycutt

There's really not much of an audience for this picture. The movie demands that its viewers put the fragmented images and information together like an intellectual jigsaw puzzle, but it never gives those viewers a good reason to do so. Read full review

Wesley Morris

Neither thrilling nor psychological, but it's chicly shot and edited and is pretty much art-directed to death. Read full review

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geofd.

Oct 28, 2005

If you understand what you see. You will love this film. Well Done.

7 of 7 users found this helpful

AndréF.

Sep 7, 2007

It can be quite confusing but don't wait the end to reveal it all.

1 of 1 users found this helpful

StaticSpine

Aug 26, 2013

Great storyline, superb cast, splendid director's work and filming, stylish picture. I'd recommend this to all people who loves movies which stimulate you to think them over. One of the best movies I've ever seen.

1 of 3 users found this helpful12

[Anonymous]

Dec 24, 2005

Very good. Haunting and gut-wrenchingly sad story. Will leave you thinking about the film for days and weeks to come. Great if you like to discuss a movie in depth afterwards with a friend and try to understand what just happened! Allow this film to affect you emotionally as it is very powerful.

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Kiva

Aug 18, 2013

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Stay is a strange movie. It has its good things but it also has some bad points. It starts really good and it has too much suspense in the beginning but after a while you get lost in that film. You don't know what is happening and why and it is a bit of strange. However, it has a really good cast and a great cinematography as well as a great direction. The end is really weird and actually the whole movie is pointless as we can see in the end. I was expecting a better thriler with that cast and not such a no-smart ending or as someone may call it ''twist''… Expand

2 of 4 users found this helpful22

Sam

Apr 12, 2006

A bloated, unfun, and unfascinating drek.

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ihatestay_2005

Dec 27, 2019

This movie is so bad it's almost 2020 and I still regret the 99 minutes of my life it stole back in 2007 when I watched it. And yes, I understood what was their story-line attempt, and that doesn't make this horrible movie any better!
"The story line did not make any sense...didn't need to,This movie is so bad it's almost 2020 and I still regret the 99 minutes of my life it stole back in 2007 when I watched it. And yes, I understood what was their story-line attempt, and that doesn't make this horrible movie any better!
"The story line did not make any sense...didn't need to, and that makes this movie so special." LoL, really?!… Expand

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