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Stay
Rated R for language and some disturbing images
In directing the David Benioff screenplay for "Stay," director Marc Forster uses a geometric visual design -- stairwells, windows, bridges -- to examine the precarious sanity of New York psychiatrist Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor), who is trying to forestall the announced suicide of guilt-strapped college student Henry Lethem (Ryan Gosling).
Bob Hoskins and Kate Burton may or may not be the parents of Henry, who thinks he killed them on the Brooklyn Bridge. You begin wondering if anyone or anything truly is when others, including Sam's live-in girl friend Lila (Naomi Watts), begin to address him as Henry. Or did she?
Real or imagined, subconscious or perhaps time-shifted, "Stay" turns itself inside out so many times that moviegoers intrigued at first may be closer to exasperation by the ambiguous fadeout.
In wide release.
