Stay (2005)

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It's a tad hard to fully explain this film without giving up its hidden agenda completely. The writer and director are two up and comers with huge projects on the way. The screenplay was penned by David Benioff who gave us Troy and the upcoming X-Men Origins : Wolverine, and directed by Marc Forster the force behind Monster's Ball and the upcoming adaptation, The Kite Runner. As a team they make Stay eerie and romantic...but our plot seems to lose a bit of steam by the time we reach the real meat of the story.

From the beginning we get that we're embarking on a mystery. We witness an ugly car accident on a bridge from and unknown point of view. Then we meet the odd Dr. Sam Foster (Ewen McGregor) and his soft spoken girlfriend Lila Culpepper (Naomi Watts) who live together in an a silent harmony...mostly because it seems they're both afraid to talk about an event that has changed their relationship.

Dr. Foster, as a favor, is taking over a colleagues patients while she's out on a sudden sick leave. Henry Lethem (Ryan Gosling) is not happy to be handed off to a ...

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