"Stay" teases its audience with levels of reality as director Marc Forster plays with nightmarish images, confusions of identity and a psychiatrist hero plunging into a full-blown psychosis. Despite the presence of such worthy actors as Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling, there's really not much of an audience for this picture. The movie demands that its viewers put the fragmented images and information together like an intellectual jigsaw puzzle, but it never gives those viewers a good reason to do so.

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