Stay

Followers of Orange is the New Black breakout star Taylor Schilling may be drawn to filmmaker Wiebke von Carolsfeld's loose-knit cross-cultural Canadian drama about a fraying relationship, based on a novel by Aislinn Hunter. Schilling plays Abbey, the much-younger lover of Dermot Fay (Aidan Quinn), a charismatic Irish archaeologist whose comfy existence in an Irish village actually follows being exiled from his academic livelihood in Dublin, where his affair with a student ended in a pregnancy scandal and tragedy. When Abbey also becomes pregnant, Dermot is outraged. Abbey takes advantage of an already planned visit to her father (Michael Ironside) back in Montreal to sort out conflicted feelings of where and with whom she belongs, emotional turmoil that is not helped by the fact of her mother's long-ago abandonment. Meanwhile, Dermot softens on the subject of children and uses an archaeology dig to monkey-wrench a hated planned housing-development scheme that promised quick cash in recession-hit Ireland. While the plotline roams all over the Auld Sod like so many errant herds of sheep, Stay does feature some fine acting from the solid cast. A strong optional purchase. (C. Cassady)