Wish I Was Here

2014

Action / Comedy / Drama

28
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 45% · 132 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 59% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 39909 39.9K

homeschooling family struggling actor

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Plot summary

Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, father and husband, is 35 years old and still trying to find a purpose for his life. He and his wife are barely getting by financially and Aidan passes his time by fantasizing about being the great futuristic Space-Knight he'd always dreamed he'd be as a little kid. When his ailing father can no longer afford to pay for private school for his two kids and the only available public school is on its last legs, Aidan reluctantly agrees to attempt to home-school them. Through teaching them about life his way, Aidan gradually discovers some of the parts of himself he couldn't find.

Director

Zach Braff Photo
Zach Braff

Top cast

Joey King Photo
Joey King as Grace Bloom
Nichole Galicia Photo
Nichole Galicia as Juliet
Kate Hudson Photo
Kate Hudson as Sarah Bloom
Jim Parsons Photo
Jim Parsons as Paul
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810.92 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
R
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 2
1.64 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
R
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Kamurai 7 / 10

Really good watch, could watch again, and can

Really good watch, could watch again, and can recommend. Big fan of Joey King ("The Act"), and Kate Hudson ("How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days"), and even Zach Graff ("Scrubs") and Josh Gad ("Frozen") give a great performance. Unfortunately, while it has comedic elements, it's not a terribly funny movie. It's more like taking a serious situation and presenting it to someone in a very palatable, if obvious fashion. This is a "life is hard", mixed with "tragic family event" tropes with some nice multi-threading for sub plots. While it's a nice story of pushing through adversity, it's still a heavy story, a sad story, but (like in real life) it's about getting past the bad to grow the good.
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Reviewed by msmolly 6 / 10

Might be worth seeing

At the Guild 45th in Wallingford, I went to a matinée of Zach Braff's just released film Wish I Was Here. The making of this film was somewhat controversial because Braff used Kickstarter to raise funds for the film he co-wrote with his brother Adam Braff, so that he could make it exactly how he wanted to. While I enjoyed the film and found it to be touching and moving at times and very funny at other times, there was nothing about it that was brilliant. The cast includes Braff as Aidan Bloom, Kate Hudson as his supportive wife Sarah, Mandy Patinkin as his father, Josh Gad as his brother Noah, and Joey King and Pierce Gagnon as his daughter and son. I thought King was quite good in her role as an almost teen-aged girl.

I certainly don't regret seeing this film, but there really isn't much to recommend it either. But if you happen to be somewhere where it is playing and are just a bit curious, go ahead and see it. I don't think you will regret it.

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