Fatherly Advice From Wish I Was Here’s Mandy Patinkin! Sheldon Wiebe June 12, 2014 Movie Trailers Mandy Patinkin plays Zach Braff’s father in Wish I Was Here. With Father’s Day coming up, Focus Features and Patinkin have released a short video of fatherly advice. Wisdom follows the jump. Wish I Was Here opens July 18th.