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Overview
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You Can't Stay Between the Living and the Dead. morePlot:
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 synopsisUser Comments:
A New Kind of Film moreCast
(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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Rated R for language and some disturbing images.Parents Guide:
View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
99 minCountry:
USALanguage:
EnglishColour:
ColourAspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 moreCertification:
South Korea:15 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Argentina:13 | Singapore:PG | Netherlands:12 | Spain:18 | Australia:M | Malaysia:U (DVD) | Norway:15 | Brazil:14 | Germany:12 | Czech Republic:15 | Mexico:B15 | Iceland:16 | Canada:14+ (Ontario) | UK:18 (video rating) (uncut) | UK:15 (original rating) (cut) | Hungary:16 | Finland:K-15 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | USA:RFilming Locations:
Columbia University - Broadway & 116th Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA moreMOVIEmeter: 
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The Dream sequence of the falling down a spiral staircase was filmed in St. John's Cathedral in New York City. moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: The answering machine in Henry's apartment has "Digital Answering Machine" printed on it yet when the new message is played it sounds like a cassette tape rewinding before the message is actually played. Digital answering machines do not have tapes to rewind so there should be no taped rewinding sound. moreQuotes:
Lila Culpepper: Henry, forgetting something?[Sam turns around towards Lila looking confused]
Lila Culpepper: What's the matter?
Sam Foster: You just called me Henry.
Lila Culpepper: Baby, I think I know your name by now
Sam Foster: Yeah, but you called me Henry.
Lila Culpepper: Sam, I know who you are. I promise.
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Aleph 2 moreFAQ
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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.