Stay (2005)

Stay
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Studio: Regency Enterprises
Rating: R
Release Date: Oct 21, 2005
Running Time: 98 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
A dedicated New York psychiatrist Sam Foster urgently attempts to stop a secretive and unusual young patient he inherited, Henry Lethem, from carrying out a planned suicide on the eve of his 21st birthday. But Sam's investigation of Henry has reality-shattering effects on the psychiatrist. As Sam is drawn deeper into the web of Henry's life--and then into the labyrinth of his subconscious--it puts stress on Sam's relationship with his artist girlfriend and former patient Lila. But soon Sam's own tightly-held grip on the rational world begins to melt away. Faced with increasingly surreal encounters and a Manhattan transformed into a wildly shifting dreamscape, Sam can no longer figure out what is true and what is happening only in his head, nor where he begins and Henry ends.
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Sam Foster
Lila Culpepper
Henry Letham
Dr. Leon Patterson
Dr. Beth Levy
Lila Culpepper
Dr. Ren
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rating  PETER TRAVERS - October 19, 2005
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. The raw power of her performance is all the more remarkable when you realize that her character, Lila, a troubled artist, is on the fringes of the story. The deft script, by David Benihoff (25th Hour), concerns Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor), a Manhattan shrink trying to stop a patient, Henry Lethem (Ryan… Continued
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Part thriller, part mind-bending absurdity, Stay will definitely leave you scratching your head. But try to stay until the end--it might make up for the rest of it.

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On the surface, Stay seems to be a straightforward psychological drama about a psychiatrist, Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor), who is trying to keep a mysterious patient, Henry (Ryan Gosling), from killing himself. But the deeper we get into it, the decidedly weirder it gets. And not necessarily in a good way. Sam and Henry seemed to… Continued