Stay (2005)

The line between helping someone and losing yourself in their world can get frighteningly thin. Marc Forster's psychological thriller "Stay," written by David Benioff, stars Ewan McGregor as Sam Foster, a New York psychiatrist who takes over the case of Henry Letham (Ryan Gosling), a troubled art student who calmly announces that he plans to end his life in three days, on his 21st birthday. Desperate to save him, Sam races to unravel Henry's past, while his girlfriend, Lila (Naomi Watts), a painter who once faced her own dark struggles, worries about how deeply he's getting drawn in. As Sam digs deeper, the boundaries between his reality and Henry's begin to blur in increasingly strange and disorienting ways. Bob Hoskins and Janeane Garofalo co-star. Stylish and dreamlike, with inventive visual transitions, it builds to a twist that recasts everything that came before.