Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his parents. As reality starts to contradict fact, Sam spirals into an unstable mental state. Then he finds a clue as to how and when Henry may try to kill himself, and races to try to stop him.
S lot of talent gets expended in Stay. (I'm not including whoever dressed McGregor.) Too bad the movie they made, while effective in short spurts, is almost a complete waste of time.
– Andrew O'Hehir,
Salon.com,
21 Oct 2005
rotten:
There's a lot of talent at work here from the cast to the screenwriter to the director and the visuals, but it's all so arbitrary and cheap and the payoff is so, so lame.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
24 Oct 2005
rotten:
This is the kind of flop that makes even the popcorn taste lousy.
– Rex Reed,
New York Observer,
26 Oct 2005
rotten:
In Marc Forster's humorless thriller, going insane is an exciting, luxurious affair.
– Rachel Aviv,
Village Voice,
27 Oct 2005
rotten:
Stay is interesting, but it's hard to recommend to anyone but the small cadre of David Lynch devotees who will inhale anything with a whiff of similarity to their favorite auteur's scent.