If I Stay Family Review

Life changes in an instant for young Mia Hall after a car accident puts her in a coma. During an out-of-body experience, she must decide whether to wake up and live a life far different than she had imagined. The choice is hers if she can go on.Mia Hall thought the hardest decision she would ever face would be whether to pursue her musical dreams at Juilliard or follow a different path to be with the love of her life, Adam. But what should have been a carefree family drive changes everything in an instant, and now her own life hangs in the balance. Caught between life and death for one revealing day, Mia has only one decision left, which will not only decide her future but her ultimate fate.—Warner Bros.Mia Hall is just a normal teenage girl about to graduate and trying but to figure out her future. But one day what should have been just another car ride with her family takes a bad turn when her father crashes the car and Mia's life, as well as the lives of her family, hang in the balance. It is now up to Mia to decide whether she want to die and stay with her parents and brother or live and spend the rest of her life without her family.After a fatal car crash, Mia Hall is caught between life and death. While her outside body is in a coma, she has to make the biggest decision of her life, wake up and be stuck as an orphan or die and live with her dead parents but deviate everyone she loves on the other side.Mia Hall 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 canceled. Mia's dad Denny is a teacher and as a result of the snow day does not have to go to work. Mia's mom Kat, a travel agent, decides to call in sick and along with her family get on the road to visit Mia's grandparents who live on a farm. It is also revealed that Mia is dating an older, popular up-and-coming rock-star named Adam Wilde. The story flashes back to Mia's early life with a rocker dad and an inexperienced mom, when one day they take Mia to a music class where Mia decides that she 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. Kat is shown pregnant with Teddy, whom Mia thinks is the reason for her father's departure from his band..