In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Aiden Bloom (Zach Braff) is an out of work actor. His wife (Kate Hudson) supports the family with a job she pretends to like. Meanwhile Aiden's dad is dying from cancer. Finances are forcing their two kids to leave the private Orthodox school. Aiden also has an engineer brother who is an underachiever. He doesn't talk to dad.There are of course other issues. The film is a dramedy that deals with life, death, mending fences, and ideas about God. It is one of those heart warming films that I got deja vu watching. (I checked Amazon twice to see if I had already seen this film and written a review on it.) It is heavily theme driven. Would make for a decent family film once they deleted two scenes and bleeped out all the swearing.Guide: F-bomb. Brief sex. No nudity.

When I saw a trailer for Wish I was Here on a DVD my husband and I watched last week I knew I wanted to see it. On our trip back to the library I was delighted to find Wish I we Here on their DVD shelves. I enjoyed the film tremendously. I grew up in Miami in a large Jewish community in the 1970s and 1980s. The story of the Bloom family- Aidan, Noah and their father- brought back a lot of memories for me. When they turned the pages of the family photo album I had to click pause on one picture, because it looked just like the pictures of my family at weddings and social events. Same colors, same hairdos, same fashions. The palm trees of LA reminded me of South Florida too. My relatives and the people I knew in school are not religious and feel like Aidan when it comes to religion: skeptical. I enjoyed the scenes of the religious school and the scenes with the rabbis. I appreciated that while Aidan didn't agree with his father about sending his children to a yeshiva the movie didn't criticize Grace's beliefs, the school, and the rabbis. I didn't mind the poking of the elderly rabbi: the sequence where he rides a segway in the hospital and crashes into a wall was hilarious. I'm glad that the movie didn't show Noah and Aidan rejecting their religious background in favour of being completely secular. Wish I Was Here could have just shown Aidan telling his children to forget about the yeshiva and religion and embrace "normal" contemporary life. I appreciated that Aidan found guidance from the younger rabbi, and Grace found ways to carry on her beliefs while adapting to their new lives after Aidan's father passed away. The pink wig was a nice symbol of her growing more confidence and openness to new experiences while maintaining her values: she was wearing a wig like a religious married woman, but it was bright pink. I'm a big fan of comics and I've been to the San Diego comic con a few times. It was great to see the convention in the movie and see the cosplayers walking outside the center and around the rooms, taking pleasure in showing off their costumes. Noah's space man costume was terrific. I saw a lot of amazing costumes at San Diego- I would have loved to see more cosplayers, especially the Star Wars costumes and the people dressing up as superheroes and supervillians. It's wonderful to see movies being made now that celebrate fan culture like the cosplayers and Comic Con. It's a pleasure to see a movie that presents growing up in a Jewish family, and explores aspects of Jewish identity, how adults and parents like Aidan and Noah feel about their heritage, and passing on values to their children.

I hate Zach Braff, but not for the reason many of you think. I hate him for not making more movies, because each and every time he does something I'm amazed. I don't think this movie is a paraphrase of Garden-state, but you can see Zach's thumb-prints everywhere. It is deep, touching, makes you think about your life and find the similarities between yourself and the great and complex characters in the movie.And the best part about this movie - Zach made Bon Iver publish a new masterpiece, an amazing song with special tune. I guess Bon Iver and Zach Braff are kind of the same deal - amazing artists, that you crave for more and more of their work, and they don't give it to you in the correct dosage. This cold turkey is killing me.Go see this movie if you haven't so far. Don't expect a thriller or a goofy romantic comedy. Go see it as a self-search journey, you'd love it.

Zach Braff of 'Scrubs' fame stars as Aiden Bloom a failed actor who relies on his wife and father for financial succour and support. Then his father can no longer afford to pay for the children's private Jewish schooling and he has to 'home teach' them as the public school is a non option.He starts to discover more about himself through his attempts to teach and in so doing gets more connected with himself and the World. Now that is the basic synopsis but what this really works at is being one of those life style, soap opera type comedies. This is not laugh a minute but it really does have its moments and they work really well. The actors all do a fine job especially the kids who seemed so natural that it looked effortless.Kate Hudson as his wife is as charming as she is beautiful and they manage to get that chemistry of a love that has been put to the test and is still fighting to stay alive. I really enjoyed this film, there is a fair bit of swearing here in case that offends, but mostly done for the comic effect or as a well placed expression of disbelief. Not a single bad performance and brilliantly directed by Zach who also co-wrote this and has proved he is as good behind the camera as he is in front of it – easily recommended.