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over 3 years ago

Wish I Was Here

a review by Kamurai

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.