We know almost immediately that something is wrong in the world of Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor), the protagonist of "Stay."
He tells his girlfriend Lila (Naomi Watts) that he didn't sleep last night because of the neighbors' baby was crying, and Lila points out that the neighbors are 90 years old and don't have a baby. Doh. Sam is a psychiatrist who does some pro-bono work at a New York university. One of his colleagues, Beth (Janeane Garofalo), is having mental issues of her own, so Sam takes on one of her patients while she takes some time off. The patient is Henry Letham (Ryan Gosling), a depressed art student who predicts hail before it happens and sometimes knows what people are going to say before they say it, or at least seems to. He tells Sam that he's going to commit suicide this Saturday at midnight. As it happens, Lila is also an artist, and she once attempted suicide, too. Though Sam can't tell her much about Henry for confidentiality reasons, she feels a kinship with him. She has just stopped taking her medication because she thinks it stifles her artistic ability. So now Sam has to worry about his girlfriend as well as his patient.
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