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- 2013
- R
- Entertainment One
- 1 h 29 m
- 2013
- R
- Entertainment One
- 1 h 29 m
Summary Four friends lose themselves in a carefree South East Asian holiday. Only three return home. Who amongst them knows what happened on that fateful night when they were dancing under a full moon in Cambodia?
Directed By: Kieran Darcy-Smith
Written By: Felicity Price, Kieran Darcy-Smith
- 2013
- R
- Entertainment One
- 1 h 29 m
- 2013
- R
- Entertainment One
- 1 h 29 m
Wish You Were Here
62
7.3
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Summary Four friends lose themselves in a carefree South East Asian holiday. Only three return home. Who amongst them knows what happened on that fateful night when they were dancing under a full moon in Cambodia?
Directed By: Kieran Darcy-Smith
Written By: Felicity Price, Kieran Darcy-Smith
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
62
53% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
40% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
62
53% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
40% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Elegantly crafted and filled with flawless performances, this mysteriously charged drama comes alive in its very first frames.
The visceral fireworks of the characters’ arguments and the disintegration of trust among them are observed with unsettling intimacy in the script and in the emotional honesty of the performances...This is terrific stuff.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 User Ratings
7.3
70% Positive
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
10% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
20% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 User Ratings
7.3
70% Positive
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
10% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
20% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
Wish you were here delivers outstanding performances and great intense story of cheating and murder. It is one of the most moving movies 2013. The story and the characters are great with breathtaking performances coming for all the actors, it has the mystery angle done very well, with first rate art direction, it makes it one of the best movies 2013.
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Despite its dubious inhabitants, the film consistently entertains by throwing the kinds of curves one should see coming but doesn’t.
Wish You Were Here goes to a dramatically gripping place of guilt and doubt; if only its grip had held just a bit tighter.
Stories built around a mystery can have a difficult time creating a satisfying answer, and this picture is no exception.
After the painstaking buildup, the revelations are disappointingly predictable.
A dull drama about domestic squabbling that hopes to be mistaken for a thriller.
A Australian married couple go to Cambodia with the married woman's younger sister and a new boyfriend, who somehow turns up missing.
This man who the family never knew well gets a very unhappy ending, and the husband here is sort of Dense I'd say.
I felt much more for the missing man's family than the story of the marriage here....
But the younger sister did have a point about her family and it's lack of emotional fiber... although she isn't blameless...
VERDICT: FAIR/SAD/UNHAPPY MARRIAGE BAD
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What seemed like a reasonable story on paper gets the over-edited, padded out flash-back screen treatment, till the viewer doesn’t want to know anymore. This might possibly have been a fair 1Hour TV episode but instead, gets stretched out to 1.1/2 Hrs with a sub-standard, messy convoluted edit style. What we have here are two Aussie couples behaving badly in Cambodia, falling afoul of druggies, grotty child sex sellers and assorted underground types – leading to a missing man. There are several ambiguous occurrences which seem to be left relatively unexplained IE; the true nature of the missing man’s business, a mysterious red car that occasionally follows them around, then there’s the young sisters' cold disregard for her sister - in light of the fact she seriously lusted after her sister’s husband (the father of her sister's children) Performances are mostly good but the situations are not always up to par and the ending offers little more than a tacked-on let down. Especially when we are left with the definite feeling these events can only get worse for these characters. An added song section near the end (seemingly included to pad out the R/T to 90mins) further slows it down unnecessarily.
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Production Company
Aquarius Films,
Blue-Tongue Films
Release Date Jun 7, 2013
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating R
Tagline Four Went. Three came back. Only one of them knows what happened.
Awards
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards
• 5 Wins & 9 Nominations
Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards
• 2 Wins & 8 Nominations
Australian Film Critics Association Awards
• 1 Win & 8 Nominations
