Wish You Were Here

Name: Wish You Were Here
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Released: June 7, 2013
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 60
Cast: Antony Starr, Felicity Price, Joel Edgerton, Teresa Palmer

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Entertainment One | Release Date: June 7, 2013 | R

Starring: Antony Starr, Felicity Price, Joel Edgerton, Teresa Palmer

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?

Director: Kieran Darcy-Smith

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery

Rating: R

Runtime: 89 min

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Joe Morgenstern

Jun 6, 2013

Elegantly crafted and filled with flawless performances, this mysteriously charged drama comes alive in its very first frames. Read full review

David Rooney

Jun 3, 2013

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. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Jun 6, 2013

Wish You Were Here is mystery moviemaking at its most intriguing. Read full review

Sam Adams

Jun 4, 2013

With greater faith in its material, the movie could have dispensed with its time jumps and saved the reveals for when they matter most. Read full review

Zachary Wigon

Jun 4, 2013

Stories built around a mystery can have a difficult time creating a satisfying answer, and this picture is no exception. Read full review

The Playlist Todd Gilchrist

Jun 3, 2013

Even though he only manages length and intensity when he’s aiming for emotional depth and dramatic sweep, Darcy-Smith does accomplish one rare feat with Wish You Were Here -- he somehow manages to tell a story that’s simultaneously mysterious and mostly uninteresting. Read full review

Kyle Smith

Jun 6, 2013

A dull drama about domestic squabbling that hopes to be mistaken for a thriller. Read full review

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MovieGoer14

Jul 15, 2013

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 firstWish 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.… Expand

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wiggipop

Jan 3, 2014

there is an amazing sense of tension and power in this film. performances are uniformly excellent, especially from newcomer felicity price. ultimately it is let down from some familiar story turns, but ends with some real shocks which lifts the film.

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clayscottbrown

Jul 21, 2014

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 missingA 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… Expand

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KenR

Feb 5, 2021

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 convolutedWhat 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.… Expand

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