Find Me Falling review – Harry Connick Jr heads to Cyprus in so-so Netflix romcom

Find Me Falling review – Harry Connick Jr heads to Cyprus in so-so Netflix romcom

The multi-hyphenate leads a mostly standard issue streaming romantic comedy that struggles to fight its way out from the background

There are a number of ways one might expect a lower-tier Netflix romcom to start – a candlelit proposal, an important business meeting about business, a splashy New York gala filmed in Vancouver – but chances are, you’re probably not expecting Harry Connick Jr to witness a suicide.

It’s the jarring start to his otherwise fairly anodyne Netflix effort Find Me Falling, a film that is about falling in love but is also about … falling to your death. He plays John Allman, an American rock star (whose level of fame is impossible to define from scene to scene) who moves to an idyllic new home in Cyprus only to find that the cliff it looks out on is a notorious suicide spot. After being unable to save the aforementioned jumper, he’s determined to avoid it from happening again and this is somehow not even the film’s A plot (!), which instead concerns him reconnecting with an old lover. Years prior, he met and fell for a local and is now hoping to reignite the spark.

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