Wish I Was Here
Wish I Was Here is the story of Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, father and husband, who at 35 is still trying to find his identity, a purpose for his life. He winds up trying to home school his two children when his father can no longer afford to pay for private education and the only available public school is on its last legs. Through teaching them about life his way, Aidan gradually discovers some of the parts of himself he could not find.
14 May 1996, Dallas, Texas, USA
24 March 1973, Houston, Texas, USA
19 February 1958, Chicago, Illinois, USA
22 June 1974, New York City, New York, USA
7 October 1983, Tucson, Arizona, USA
27 November 1945, Pughsville [now Suffolk], Virginia, USA
24 January 1981, Lakeside, California, USA
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
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 ...
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.
October 26, 2016
All in all, a good summer movie.
July 18, 2014
Wish I Was Here's philosophical scope never gets much bigger than the slip of paper inside a fortune cookie.
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.
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 is a funny, touching movie that features one of Kate Hudson's best performances and a curmudgeonly good one from Mandy Patinkin.
July 31, 2015
Braff directs a Soggy sitcom of a movie
July 18, 2014
Braff plays Aidan with easygoing exasperation and Hudson is better than I've seen her since Almost Famous.
