Wishful Thinking

Wishful Thinking is a 1988 Drama film written by Clint Howard and directed Clint Eastwood.

It was filmed alongside Eastwood's other 88 picture Bird: which featured Forest Whitaker.

Wishful Thinking shares it's title with another motion picture which starred Drew Barrymore and concerned three interlinking stories executed in the genres of a comedy and a drama film.

Wishful Thinking is much like the following films The Boys of St. Vincent 1992 (St. Vincent being a television movie) and Sleepers (1996) as it involves child male abuse at the hands of male adults.

The film however unlike Sleepers does not concern court case vengeance like the following films of the same allegory.

The film is the winner of 4 Academy Awards: 1. Best Screenplay 2. Best Director: Clint Eastwood 3. Best Supporting Actor: Steve Buscemi and 4. Best Leading Actor: Kenneth Branagh (this being the only Oscar he has actually secured as he has been nominated four times on the accounts of: 1. Writing On Hamlet, 2. Best Short Film: Swan Song, 3. Best Director on Henry V and 4. Another Best Lead Actor in the film to which he also directed Henry V.)