Wish You Were Here
Four went. Three came back. Only one of them knows what happened.
Four friends lose themselves in a carefree South-East Asian holiday. Only three come back. Dave and Alice return home to their young family desperate for answers about Jeremy's mysterious disappearance. When Alice's sister Steph returns not long after, a nasty secret is revealed about the night her boyfriend went missing. But it is only the first of many. Who amongst them knows what happened on that fateful night when they were dancing under a full moon in Cambodia?
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Cast
Joel Edgerton
Dave Flannery
Teresa Palmer
Steph McKinney
Felicity Price
Alice Flannery
Antony Starr
Jeremy King
Nicholas Cassim
Joe Canane
Tina Bursill
Margie McKinney
Wayne Blair
Willis
Valerie Bader
Helen King
Pip Miller
Jim King
Fiona Press
Val
Phillip Hinton
Collin
Candice Storey
Claire
Louisa Mignone
Aida
Jessica Chapnik
Steph's Flatmate
Glenn Chow
Vietnamese Car Driver
Russell Newman
Warehouse Manager
Kristina Ceyton
Jeremy’s Neighbor
Rous Mony
Young Angry Cambodian Man
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Reviews
Wuchak
**_Good beach-oriented crime/mystery told in an annoying, viewer-unfriendly way_**
Two couples from Australia take a vacation to the beaches of Cambodia in which the beau of one of the sisters mysteriously goes missing after a night of partying. Upon their return to Sydney they try to put the broken pieces together.
"Wish You Were Here" (2012) is a psychological crime drama/mystery with some thrills belonging to the subgenre about Caucasians visiting a dubious Southeast Asian country and running into inevitable problems, like “Vinyan” (2008), “No Escape” (2015) or even “The Beach” (2000). Teresa Palmer (Steph) is a highlight as usual while the locations are great and the cast is effective.
Unfortunately, the supposedly ‘hip’ shaky handheld cam and relatively quick editing in the first act get annoying real fast. Worse, the story is told in an unnecessarily convoluted manner with constant flash-forwards, flashbacks and flash-presents all jammed together with little indication. Sure, you’ll be able to put the pieces together by the second half, but why make the viewer work so hard?
While this makes the flick rather unenjoyable, there are several interesting psychological things going on that make it worthwhile, not to mention the aforementioned positives.
The film runs 1 hours, 29 minutes, and was shot in New South Wales, Australia, including the Sydney area, as well as Sihanoukville on the coast of Cambodia.
GRADE: B-/C+
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