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Wish I Was Here
Wish I Was Here starring Zach Bragg, Kate Hudson and Mandy Patinkin follows a young man who has been struggling with life even as an actor, his father has been catering for his family, but when things wouldn't get better on time, Aidan is left on his own. There he may find his true purpose in life.
27 November 1945, Pughsville [now Suffolk], Virginia, USA
24 March 1973, Houston, Texas, USA
19 April 1979, Los Angeles, California, USA
24 January 1981, Lakeside, California, USA
October 26, 2016
All in all, a good summer movie.June 18, 2016
Just about all of the "compromises" that Braff says he'd have been forced to make (and I'm slightly perturbed to say this, being a fairly consistent support-the-artist type) would have made 'Wish I Was Here' a better film.July 18, 2014
The fruits of writer-director Zach Braff's Kickstarter are here for the general public, and they're at once vibrantly weird, beautiful and thoughtful.July 31, 2015
Braff directs a Soggy sitcom of a movieJuly 18, 2014
Wish I Was Here is a funny, touching movie that features one of Kate Hudson's best performances and a curmudgeonly good one from Mandy Patinkin.July 18, 2014
It is sometimes maudlin, sometimes trivial and sometimes very moving, but never less than achingly sincere.July 18, 2014
"Wish I Was Here" is a welcome, if belated, second chapter in a filmmaker's career. I just hope we don't have to wait another 10 years to see what he thinks about life as a forty-something ...July 18, 2014
Braff plays Aidan with easygoing exasperation and Hudson is better than I've seen her since Almost Famous.June 21, 2016
Unfortunately, the film spends so much time trying to define itself, we're never allowed to immerse ourselves into the experience.February 01, 2015
Braff clearly wants us to find his hapless hero's travails funny and affecting. Instead, they come across as self-indulgent navel-gazing.July 18, 2014
Wish I Was Here's philosophical scope never gets much bigger than the slip of paper inside a fortune cookie.April 17, 2016
The film creatively runs aground and never jostles itself loose, content to wallow in the kind of misery that "Garden State" rebuffed.