To Stay or Go: An If I Stay Movie Review

What would you do if you had to choose between staying with your true love, or going with your family. Mia is in her senior year of high school, her life is just beginning. Her passion for the cello has landed her an audition for Julliard, a school nearly 3,000 miles away from her home in Portland, Oregon. Mia has also found the one she loves, Adam, who is the lead singer of a band that is just kick starting their career. Mia’s life is going great, and in one moment, it’s completely changed.

“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.” Mia quickly realizes this when she is put in a coma after she and her family is in a horrendous car accident. After the accident she begins to live like a ghost outside her body. Mia then begins looking back on her life; deciding on whether to stay or go…

If I Stay is a movie about music, loss, and love. It is based on the novel by Gayle Foreman, and over all the movie is a great rendition of the book. If I Stay also includes a surplus of amazing songs on its soundtrack. Whether the song was written for Adam’s band to perform or to just play in the background to help set a mood, music is what brings this movie together. Music is also what brings Mia and Adam together, but it’s also what tears them apart.

When you go see If I Stay remember to buy popcorn and bring some tissues because by the end you’ll be in tears. Overall this movie deserves a wildcat roar for a four and a half stars out of five. I highly recommend that you see this movie as soon as possible because this is an instant classic that will have you begging on your knees for more. Next time you are at the movies remember, If I Stay. 

By William Brummell