Zach Braff’s Kickstarter movie premiered at Sundance yesterday.
Variety, the movie industry trade newspaper, calls it “a cloying compendium of follow-your-dreams platitudes, new-agey spirituality and mawkish, father-son deathbed bonding that strains so hard to recapture “Garden State’s” calculating but effective blend of whimsy and pathos that it nearly gives itself a hernia.” However, it concludes that “Nostalgia for Braff’s debut pic plus Kickstarter-centric buzz should equate to solid niche biz…”
Proves that quality is never assured in a crowdfunded project; you pay your money and take your chances.
Read the review: http://variety.com/2014/film/reviews/sundance-film-review-wish-i-was-here-1201064010/
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