Parents' Guide to Find Me Falling

Featuring mature stars in an attractive setting, this is a more thoughtful romance than much of what Netflix has put out in the genre recently. Find Me Falling still follows the formula—bruised American relocates to isolated foreign locale, finding love and a newfound community (cue the quaint, busybody neighbors who prepare fabulous local dishes). Only here, the American already has a past with the place, details of which are meted out slowly. The film is best enjoyed with no prior information about events to unfold. Written and directed by a South African-Cypriot doesn't mean less exoticization of the locale, but the portrayal is clearly crafted with a lot of love.

Writer-director Stelana Kliris says her initial inspiration for the film was a news story about a man in a house on a cliff known as a suicide hot spot. That premise doesn't play out in a dark way, but it does infuse the main character with more depth. He becomes a guardian of lost souls in his lonely cliff-set house, which together with the romance give the film its name and also its theme song. Connick Jr. doesn't always deliver his lines with the naturalness of a leading man, but he's believable and likeable in the role of worn-out rock star. The standout performance belongs to Whitney as the energetic songbird who worms her way into his life.