Wish I Was Here
Aidan's chaotic curriculum leads to some surprising self-discoveries for his family, Aidan must reassess his career, his relationships and his faith. This is just when he begins to loose hope on his true purpose.
20 July 2004
30 November 1952, Chicago, Illinois, USA
14 April 1964, Newark, Ohio, USA
6 November 1981, Menasha, Wisconsin, USA
23 February 1981, Hollywood, Florida, USA
29 July 1972, Schenectady, New York, USA
20 March 1986, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
22 June 1974, New York City, New York, USA
26 June 1970, New York City, New York, USA
9 April 1969, Los Angeles, California, USA
30 July 1999, Los Angeles, California, USA
27 November 1945, Pughsville [now Suffolk], Virginia, USA
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.
July 31, 2015
Braff directs a Soggy sitcom of a movie
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.
June 21, 2016
Unfortunately, the film spends so much time trying to define itself, we're never allowed to immerse ourselves into the experience.
July 18, 2014
Braff plays Aidan with easygoing exasperation and Hudson is better than I've seen her since Almost Famous.
October 26, 2016
All in all, a good summer movie.
July 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.
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 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
Wish I Was Here's philosophical scope never gets much bigger than the slip of paper inside a fortune cookie.
