Wish You Were Here Page #3

Synopsis: 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?
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Kieran Darcy-Smith
Production: Entertainment One
  10 wins & 23 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
60
Rotten Tomatoes:
70%
R
Year:
2012
89 min
$803,093
Website
478 Views


- You need to ring Foreign Affairs.

- You can't just...you know, up and leave. Just out of the blue like that.

You should have thought about that

before you f***ed my sister.

Eh Al...Al...Al!

They know already anyway.

Steph...Steph called DFA (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) before she left.

...and it doesn't change anything.

I said it doesn't change any...can you hear me out.

Please. Please. For two seconds.

We were completely off our heads.

I can't even hardly remember now...

...what actually happened...

...but I do not have feelings for her...

...or anything like that.

Alright?

I was a bad guy...

...and I cannot tell you how sorry I am, I really...

Come on mate! Just please...can you just...

It can be inclusive so we are having lunch.

Susan and I - we are having lunch.

Or...uh...it can be exclusive...

So I can say...um...Mary

and I are having lunch, but not you, Susan.

We are having lunch.

Any questions?

Hi, you've called Alice leave me a message

and I'll get back to you. Thanks.

- Here you go.

- Thank you.

- I'm putting some plastic bag for you.

- Oh cool.

Pick.

What are you doing?

Uh I'm getting beers for tonight.

- Uh huh. Cool!

- You?

I'm going for a swim.

- Cool.

- Cool.

Ahh...Jiminy Cricket.

Christ!

Wanna come?

I am not yelling at you...

What happened...

Jeremy turns up tomorrow.

- Well I thought that's exactly what we wanted.

- They could arrest him.

They could arrest him for trafficking...

...and they could hang him...they could hang him Al.

Come on! That's ridiculous!

I don't think anybody is going to get executed...

- ...for having five or six extacy tablets.

- Why don't you look it up then.

- You look it up. There's a computer.

- What exactly is your problem with this?

It was a bad idea to keep this quiet in the first place.

- If he was in jail at least we'd know he was alive.

- I don't think this even about him.

- What?

- I think it's about you...

...reacting emotionally to something that's

between you and me and seriously nobody else.

Oh what?

...because we should have discussed it...

we should have discussed it...you run after the f***ing...

...the government...about something you don't know anything about...

You want me to discuss this with you?

You're wondering why I wouldn't discuss this with you.

- You know what Dave? You just...

- Discussed with me...yes.

You can say whatever you want, but...

It is going to look really strange now because

I've already told them one thing

and you're going to go in there and you're

going to say something completely different.

Excuse me.

Yeah listen mate, something just came up alright so...

- There's nothing I can do about it.

- Yeah alright.

I'll be there as soon as I can.

- Hello!

- Hello?

Al!

- Ali

- Goodbye.

- Who was that? What was that?

- What?

Who was it?

- Who cares? Someone...

- Who were you talking to you?

A student.

What was he talking about that?

What did he want?!

I don't know Dave he's new he was just saying "hello".

Wait so he was just randomly driving by...

Yeah I guess.

Why?

What?

Look... I've only got a half hour park - we should go.

This is crazy and difficult.

So...straight through to Annabelle.

She'll sign you out.

Time for you guys.

Straight down the left, first door on the right.

- Thanks Steph.

- Thanks

This is just a follow up on what Alice raised with us yesterday

regarding drug use on that night.

Up until now we really don't have much to go on. So...

Sir.

Ah. This is detective Senior Sargeant John Canane.

He'll be sitting with us today.

John is with the federal police.

- Hi

- Sure, hi.

And, as you know we work together closely on all these cases.

...and the idea was it to sell the remaining tablets at the party?

Probably.

I don't know for sure. I didn't ask him.

You know obviously that if...when you...

...it was going to turn out like this we

would have said something at the time.

Yeah. And you didn't meet yourself with the supplier?

No I don't know who his supplier was.

Not any time in that week?

Well, like I say...um...

I didn't ask him anything about...you know...

...because he just walked in that afternoon

with a handful of pills.

Excuse me.

Yep.

Where abouts?

Alright.

That is disappointing.

Thanks for letting me know.

Sorry!

Uhh...I don't think...I mean with respect...

I think it would be pretty naive to think that we were the only people at that party...

- ...on ecstasy.

- Of course.

Look all I can think is that maybe, maybe his...

...that he saw me with Steph and he's been upset by that.

Okay.

- Well probably I think it's best if...

- You said there was no way he could have seen you.

Well you know...I don't...

I don't think that he did...but...it's a possibility.

Look...it was dark.

Look, I can't say anything for sure but

I don't think that it had anything to do with drugs.

I think we go back over the night...

...try to remember any small details...

...anything you might have missed, yeah?

That bearing in mind that Jeremy was almost certainly affected by drugs.

- Okay.

- Okay?

Wow.

Hey, Al.

Look at these little elephants. Babe look at these.

- How much would it be for that?

- Babe don't worry about that.

Twenty dollars?

Ah! It opens.

One?

Let me get it. I'll get this one.

I want to get it.

No more.

Is it you...It's you on your own, right?

Listen, look it's like this. Alright?

Dave, sure...and I might see that at

a party or something and I like it.

Alright, I like the design.

I know some people up in China so I'll give them a call

and I'll send them a photo or a sample...

...two weeks later I've got 400 shirts on a boat.

Okay now each shirt - it costs me a dollar fifty by the time it's landed.

I take them out and sell them in the shops for twenty five.

So that's a fifteen hundred percent markup. Right there.

In two weeks I made ten grand.

- This is crazy!

- Thank you!

- You're very nice.

- Ah koon.

Ah mate, I've got this one.

- No, no, no...

- No seriously, I got it.

Dave, it's like twelve bucks. Thank you.

Look, these things. Right?

They're everywhere around here. I retail probably...

...three, four thousand of them a year?

Ten bucks a pop,

and they cost me two.

I mean that's it.

People just...they want to buy it.

I mean it's just simple honest business.

Supply and demand.

I mean anyone can do it, it's just...

people don't think of it.

Good for you!

He is eh? Smart boy I got here.

Anyway.

That's very cool.

Mrs. King, hi. I'm so sorry I thought you said twelve thirty.

Oh it's alright.

My mistake. My head's kind of all over the place.

It's okay...it's okay.

Jim, thanks.

I'm so sorry.

Oh please!

Jim's been keeping you entertained I hope?

- Thank you.

- Please, have a seat.

Thank you!

You're expecting.

I am. In April. A little girl.

- Congratulations.

- Thank you.

I went past the house and collected his mail.

So, it's your first baby?

Uh no. Uh we have um a little four year old boy

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Kieran Darcy-Smith

Kieran Darcy-Smith is an Australian actor, film director, and screenwriter. He is best known for starring in the films The Cave, The Square, Animal Kingdom, and The Reef. He made his feature film directing debut with 2012 film Wish You Were Here, and his second directorial project The Duel was released in June 2016. more…

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