Taglines: Escape. Forever..
What You Wish For movie storyline. Ryan, a talented but down-on-his-luck chef, flees from his gambling problems to an unnamed Latin American country to meet with his friend Jack, whom he has not seen for several years and who now cooks for a shady entertainment company specialising in illegal dinner events with human flesh for high-end clientele.
When Jack hangs himself from work pressure and remorse, Ryan sees his suicide as an opportunity to escape from his own financial difficulties and assumes Jack’s identity place to cook an important meal for the clients of the company, after the company’s killer “sources” a male local for Ryan to use as “meat produce”. By chance the murdered man’s uncle turns out to be a police detective, and when the detective comes with inquiries to the company’s villa, he ends up sitting down to the dinner made from his nephew’s flesh.
Faced with disclosure from the company that there is no way for him to leave employment without becoming an “ingredient” in the company’s next dinner event, Ryan confesses everything to the detective. The detective is killed at the end of the meal, with his flesh saved for the next event and with a falsified email purporting to explain his nephew’s disappearance sent in his name to his sister.
What You Wish For is a 2023 American thriller film, written and directed by Nicholas Tomnay. The film stars Nick Stahl, Tamsin Topolski, Randy Vasquez, and Penelope Mitchell. It is Nicholas Tomnay’s second feature film after The Perfect Host (2010). What You Wish For had limited theatrical release in United States on 31 May 2024.
What You Wish For (2024)
Directed by: Nicholas Tomnay
Starring: Nick Stahl, Tamsin Topolski, Randy Vasquez, Penelope Mitchell, Brian Groh, Juan Carlos Messier, Ariel Sierra, David Tominaga, Norma Nivia, Megumi Hasebe, Evan Sudarsky
Screenplay by: Nicholas Tomnay
Production Design by: Diana Trujillo
Cinematography by: Mateo Guzmán
Film Editing by: Nicholas Tomnay
Costume Design by: Lina Guarnizo
Set Decoration by: Tatiana Dulcey
Art Direction by: Laura Victoria Alvarez Giordanelli
Music by: Jeff Russo, Tracie Turnbull
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Magnolia Pictures
Release Date: May 31, 2024 (United States)
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