Movie Details:
Directed by: R. J. Cutler
Produced by: Denise Di Novi, Alison Greenspan
Written by: Shauna Cross
Based on: If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Starring: Chloë Grace Moretz, Mireille Enos, Jamie Blackley, Joshua Leonard, Stacy Keach, Aisha Hinds
Music by: Heitor Pereira
Cinematography: John de Borman
Edited by: Keith Henderson
Production company: DiNovi Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, New Line Cinema
Distributed by: Warner Bros.
Release date(s:) August 18, 2014 (New York premiere), August 22, 2014
Running time: 138 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $11 million
Box office: $19,526,521
Plot:
Mia Hall (Chloë Grace Moretz) and her family are getting ready to go on with their normal day
activities when it is announced on the radio that school has been cancelled. Mia's dad Denny (Joshua
Leonard) is a teacher and as a result of the snow day doesn't have to go to work. Mia's mom Kat
Mireille Enos), a travel agent, decides to call in sick and along with her family decide to visit
Mia's grandparents who live on a farm. The story then flash-backs to Mia's early life with a rocker
dad who was in a band while she was younger and an inexperienced mom; one day they take Mia to a
music class where Mia decides that wants to start playing the cello. After her parents see that Mia
is passionate about the cello they hire a teacher to help her play, while Mia's mom is now pregnant
with Teddy (Jakob Davies). Years later with an adolescent Mia who is still passionate about the cello
is playing at school in the band room when popular up-and-coming rock-star Adam Wilde (Jamie
Blackley) peeks in on her playing leading him to ask Kim (Liana Liberato), Mia's best-friend, for her
name. Adam then asks Mia out on a date to the symphony, where they show mutual affection towards one another. The story flashes-back to current time with the family driving to the grandparents farm when their car collides with an incoming truck. Mia now appears to have an out-of-body experience and sees her body laying on the floor while paramedics seem to be trying to help her other family members as well. Mia tries to ask a paramedic what was going on, but realizes that no one could see or hear her. Mia, now in the hospital panics as she doesn't know the current status about any of her family members when they take her in for surgery. Mia attends one of Adam's concerts for his band Willamette Stone where she doesn't seem to fit in with anyone. Adam's band is now getting more recognition and gets signed to a label. While at dinner Grandpa suggests that Mia should apply into Juilliard, an idea which she initially rebuffs, but ends up going to an audition in San Francisco. It takes a while for Mia to tell Adam about her audition and when she does he becomes upset saying hurtful things to her and leaves for a week long gig. Now out of surgery Mia sees a doctor speaking to her grandparents when she sees Teddy in a coma-like state. Adam comes to the hospital to see Mia, but won't let him since he isn't immediate family. It is then revealed that Mia's mom Kat died on arrival, her dad Denny died on the operating table and Teddy died from internal bleeding. Mia decides that she wants to die so that she can join them. While at her audition for Julliard, Mia plays the best she has ever had leading her to think that if accepted she will go; She talks to Adam about it and they break up.
Adam is finally allowed to see Mia where he reveals that he wrote a song for her and lets her know
that he will do whatever it takes as long as she stays, it doesn't matter even if it's not with hi
m. Mia after flashing back through all her happy moments in her life opens her eyes.
