Aidan Bloom is a 35-year-old man who finds himself at major crossroads, which forces him to examine his life, his career, and his family.
Wish I Was Here is the story of Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, father and husband, who at 35 is still trying to find his identity; a purpose for his life. He winds up trying to home school his two children when his father can no longer afford to pay for private education and the only available public school is on its last legs. Through teaching them about life his way, Aidan gradually discovers some of the parts of himself he couldnt find.
| nudity | Simulated dry humping between man and woman in costumes is seen very briefly (nothing explicit is seen) A man is standing, back facing the camera, with his boxers and pants down masturbating infront of a laptop (butt shown). He quickly pulls his boxers up as he is interrupted and hides his groin with the laptop. implied sexual masturbation to a video playback on a laptop (nothing explicit is seen; if you blink you'll miss it) There is occasional suggestive talk |
| violence | ]A woman argues loudly with her male cubicle mate about his sexual harassment of her weeks later in a store her husband tells the man to stay away from her, the second man punches the husband in the face, giving him a black eye and loudly breaking a glass jar of money the husband was carrying and scattering the money across the floor. A man attempts to homeschool his elementary school children and they argue loudly; we see the children asleep in straight back chairs after having been duct taped to them and their uncle pops a switchblade and says that he will cut them loose (we do not see the action). An elderly man becomes weak and asks his family to gather around him for the end and they all become tearful as he says that if there is a next time, he'll do better as a father and dies quietly and we see his closed-casket funeral. A man attempts to explain death to his young children; he and his wife discuss the fact that they don't know how to explain death, because they don't know what they believe themselves. |
| profanity | About 32 F-words and its derivatives ,11 scatological terms (i.e. s**t) 8 anatomical terms (i.e. ass) 6 mild obscenities (i.e. Hell) 8 religious exclamations (e.g. Oh My God, Oh God, Bless God, For God's Sakes, Jesus). |
| alcohol | A man smokes pot after dropping his kids of at a Jewish school. A Rabbi catches his in the act and later gives him a plant and says "Just don't smoke it." One of the young children talks about buying drugs in public school. |
| frightening | 5/10 The film has some very emotional and upsetting moments. The scene where Adian's father dies is very emotional. |
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