''Stay the Night'' is a 2022 Canadian romantic drama film, written and directed by

Renuka Jeyapalan Renuka Jeyapalan is a Tamils, Tamil Canadian film and television director. Her debut short film ''Big Girl (film), Big Girl'' won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2005 Toronto International Film Fest ...

. The film stars

Andrea Bang Andrea Bang is a Canadian actress and screenwriter from Burnaby, British Columbia. She is best known for playing Janet Kim in the CBC comedy ''Kim's Convenience'', for which she was nominated many times at the Canadian Screen Awards. She has a ...

and Joe Scarpellino. It was released to positive reviews from critics and was nominated for

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and Best Sound Mixing at the 2023 Canadian Screen Awards.

Premise

Grace is a woman who decides to seek out a

one-night stand A one-night stand or one-night sex is a single sexual encounter in which there is an expectation that there shall be no further relations between the sexual participants. It draws its name from the common practice of a one-night stand, a single ...

with a man after being passed over for a promotion at work for being too reserved; visiting a bar she meets Carter, a professional hockey player who is also at a career crossroads, with the two making a more profound emotional connection over the course of the evening than either expected.Marriska Fernandes
"Can wandering Toronto streets in winter be sexy? New film ‘Stay the Night’ tackles the ‘one night’ romance story"
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'', November 17, 2022.

Cast

as Grace * Joe Scarpellino as Carter *Humberly González as Joni *

Raymond Ablack Raymond Ablack (born November 15, 1989) is a Canadian actor and comedian. He began his career in the early 2000s as a child actor on stage, performing as Young Simba in ''The Lion King'' at the Princess of Wales Theatre. He later gained recogni ...

as Roshan *

Graham Abbey Graham Abbey (born Graham Robert Thomson Abbey, March 24, 1971) is a Canadian film, television and stage actor, who is best known for his role as Gray Jackson in TV drama '' The Border''. History At the then Stratford Festival of Canada, the e ...

as Coach Matthews *Raven Dauda as Claire

Release

The film premiered in March 2022 at

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. It was later released in theaters on October 7, 2022.'Stay the Night' Trailer Sees Andrea Bang & Joe Scarpellino Working Through Tough Times Together [Exclusive

Critical reception

The film received positive reviews from critics. On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, it holds an approval rating of 86% with an average rating of 7.6 out of 10, based on 14 reviews.

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* * 2022 films 2022 drama films Canadian romantic drama films English-language Canadian films Films about Asian Canadians 2022 directorial debut films 2020s Canadian films Films directed by Renuka Jeyapalan {{2020s-Canada-film-stub