If I Stay
Life transforms in a twinkle of an eye for young Mia Hall after a car accident puts her in a coma. she must decide whether to wake up and live a life far different than she had imagined.
13 November 1975, Brooklyn, New York, USA
21 December 1988, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
27 May 1978, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
13 March 1965, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
19 June 1980, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
29 January 2003, White Rock, British Columbia, Canada
26 September 1974, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
15 August 1961, Canada
14 January 1971, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
29 April 1985, British Columbia, Canada
17 June 1975, Houston, Texas, USA
10 November 1991, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
1954, Canada
20 August 1995, Galveston, Texas, USA
5 August 1970, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
19 May 1996, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
22 September 1975, Houston, Texas, USA
21 August 1987, California, USA
February 28, 2016
If I Stay proves another trite tale belittling its earned emotion with misguided adolescent fantasy.
July 31, 2015
A true middle-of-the-road effort, provoking neither scorn nor admiration
September 30, 2014
If I Stay never explains whether Mia's is a special case or if everyone who hovers between life and death has that decision to make. And if it's the latter, does that mean your gramps and meemaw simply didn't love you enough to stick around?
April 14, 2016
[Laps] itself in a race towards tastelessness that no one asked it to run.
August 22, 2014
The heroine lies in the coma, but the audience may feel brain-dead by the end of If I Stay.
January 09, 2017
If I Stay is the best when it focuses on its characters and relationships. Everything else is somewhat extraneous.
August 22, 2014
You want these people to have real challenges and messiness. But their lives don't quite feel lived in; they feel exemplary.
September 04, 2014
Documentarian R.J. Cutler, in his feature debut, joins Moretz in delivering this pap as if it meant something. Cue eye rolling.
February 29, 2016
The problem with this film is its languorous style and overwhelming use of a soppy atmosphere.
August 29, 2014
For a drama pretty much aimed at 12-year-old girls, this is less superficial than you'd expect.
August 22, 2014
[Moretz's] grounded, naturalistic presence goes a long way toward making mushy material palatable.
September 15, 2014
The title refers to Mia's fraught decision-should she cling to existence or just give up?-and, well before the end, even loyal viewers will be begging her to hurry up and choose.
