DVD Review: Finding You

Finding You
(DVD Finding)

Pleasant little relationship film, with equal parts humor and drama, set against the gorgeous backdrops of the Irish countryside.

 

18-year-old Finley Sinclair is a violin virtuoso, but still failed to impress the judges when auditioning for a performing arts school. So, she follows in her late brother’s footsteps by applying to study for a semester abroad, in Ireland, staying with the same host family her brother did just a few years earlier.

 

Also staying at that family’s B&B is young heart-throb film star Beckett Rush, in Ireland to film the latest in his international hit film series about a medieval hero in a world of dragons. Beckett is trying to keep a low profile and avoid the young actress he’s rumored to be “a couple” with. Despite Finley’s best efforts to avoid Beckett, they keep running into each and spending time with each other.

 

In a B-plot, as part of her studies, Finley is required to befriend a senior in a care facility, and finds herself fascinated to learn why that woman is so bitter and angry.

 

For such a frothy “romance” film, there’s some serious stuff going on in Finding You, and the relatively young cast does a fine job with it all. Patrick Bergin (as a lively Irish fiddler who mentors Finley) and Vanessa Redgrave (as the embittered older woman Finley must befriend) both turn in marvelous performances as well. The Irish countryside is well-represented, and in Finley’s musical journey, we get treated to several sessions of Irish pub music.

 

All in all, a very enjoyable film.

 

(If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try If Only (with Jennifer Love Hewitt) or Leap Year with Amy Adams.)

 

(Based on the Christian fiction novel There You’ll Find Me by Jenny B. Jones.)

 

( Internet Movie Database entry for this film )

 

Recommended by Scott C.
Bennett Martin Public Library — Public Service

 

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