Find Me Falling | 2024 | TV-MA | – 4.3.3

Why is “Find Me Falling” rated TV-MA? The TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board rating indicates that “this program is specifically designed to be viewed by adults and therefore may be unsuitable for children under 17.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes an implied sex scene, a couple of pregnancies out of wedlock, a man swimming nude, a man falling from a cliff to his death, a woman grieving for her son at the cliff where he ended his life, a young woman standing at a cliff’s edge, a woman nearly struck by a car, a man with a severe sunburn, several arguments and misunderstandings, and some strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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When a famous rock star’s (Harry Connick Jr.) comeback album fails, he retreats to a bucolic life on the Greek island of Cyprus, only to discover that a cliff by his house is a popular suicide spot; while trying to prevent depressed locals from jumping to their death, he also rekindles a youthful romance with the town doctor (Agni Scott). Also with Ali Fumiko Whitney, Tony Demetriou, Angeliki Filipidou, Lea Maleni, Athina Roditou, Clarence Smith and Yiola Klitou. Directed by Stelana Kliris. Several lines of dialogue are spoken in Greek with English subtitles. [Running Time: 1:33]

Find Me Falling SEX/NUDITY 4

 – A man and a woman kiss and the scene shifts to them lying in bed together (we see the man’s bare back and chest and the woman’s shoulders and cleavage); they talk and caress each other tenderly (sex is implied).
► A man and a woman kiss and embrace in a few scenes. A man tenderly kisses a young woman on the forehead.
► A woman arrives at a man’s house, sees another person’s belongings, and assumes that there is another woman with him; they argue and she realizes that the other person is her daughter and they leave together. We hear that a woman became pregnant and that she did not tell the man that he was a father. A young woman tells a man that the best way to learn a new language is to “take on a lover that speaks it.” A man tries to arrange a date for another man with his sister. A man asks a woman why she never married and she asks him the same question. A man asks a woman if a young woman is his child. A man serenades a woman by singing a love song from the street below her window. A woman asks another woman about what dress to wear in a couple of scenes and the second woman advises against certain dresses because they will lead to trouble.
► A man undresses to swim in a seemingly unpopulated cove (we see his bare chest, back, abdomen and we see his swim trunks drop to his feet revealing his bare feet and partial calves); a family arrives and sets up their umbrella and the man is unable to come out of the water (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details). A young woman wears low-cut dresses and tops that reveal her cleavage, bare back and shoulders in several scenes. A woman wears a slip that reveals cleavage, bare shoulders and legs to just above the knees.

Find Me Falling VIOLENCE/GORE 3

 – A man stands at the edge of a cliff over the sea and another man approaches him from behind; the first man tells the second man to “Go away,” the second man tells him, “You go away” and the first man steps off the cliff falling to his death (we do not see the result).
► A young woman stands at the edge of a cliff and a man calls out to her not to jump; she turns around and we see that she is pregnant and the man convinces her to come away from the edge. A young woman stands in front of her parents and they realize that she is pregnant; another man stands in the way of her father as he lunges toward her yelling that this is a catastrophe. A woman is nearly struck by a car.
► A woman arrives at a man’s house, sees another person’s belongings, and assumes that there is another woman with him; they argue and she realizes that the other person is her daughter and they leave together. A man sings a song in a taverna and changes the lyrics to include that a young woman is his daughter and embarrasses the young woman and the young woman’s mother (they both storm out). A woman yells at a man and slams a bunch of flowers that he was holding against a wall.
► A woman throws a radio out the window and it shatters on the ground below, very near another woman walking with her dog. A police official refers to a cliff as a “suicide hotspot.” A woman in a grocery store argues with a man about the items that he is buying and substitutes some of them. A man talks to another man about having “bombed” in a comeback performance. A woman’s cell phone rings during a church service and she seems embarrassed. An elderly woman says that she is ready to die and shows her granddaughter a suitcase packed with items for her burial. A woman talks about the death of her husband and children and having lived through two wars.
► A man is shown with badly sunburned shoulders and back after he spends too much time in the sun (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details). Two men eat snails and make loud sucking sounds. A man drinks from a bottle of liquor and appears inebriated; he is discovered sleeping on the ground the next day, having apparently passed out.

Find Me Falling LANGUAGE 3

 – 1 obscene hand gesture, 2 sexual references, 8 anatomical terms (several spoken in Greek without translation), 12 mild obscenities, name-calling (old, fool, stupid, mega star, groupies, crazy, cheesy, idiot, older, gross), exclamations (boo-hoo, nonsense, oh boy, oh man, ew, oh my goodness, wow, screw you, oh come on, oh no, make a mess, nice, seriously, shut-up, playing with fire), 11 religious exclamations (e.g. oh my God, God). | profanity glossary |

Find Me Falling SUBSTANCE USE

 – A man drinks from a bottle of liquor and appears inebriated, people drink liquor as well as wine and beer in a few restaurant scenes, two men drink several bottles of beer each, a man drinks a bottle of beer alone and we see empties on the ground around him, and two men drink several shots each of liquor (like moonshine) in a bar/restaurant. A young woman smokes cigarettes in several scenes, a young woman puts a cigarette in her mouth twice and a woman takes it out and throws it away, and a man puts a cigarette in his mouth in a couple of scenes but is unable to find his lighter to light it.

Find Me Falling DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Fame, celebrity, running away, relationships, professional disappointment, the pain of togetherness, suicide, estranged families, small village communities, forgiveness, mistakes, death of loved ones.

Find Me Falling MESSAGE

 – Relationships are a lot of hard work. Greeks live simply and well.