Review: Young adult love story Finding You finds plenty of sap
A trip to Ireland is packed with teenage fantasies in this cheesy but harmless romantic fable
Adam Graham
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In the earnest Ireland-set young adult romance Finding You, the clichés are as big as the Cliffs of Moher.
Rose Reid stars as Finley Sinclair, a violin student from New York who goes on a semester abroad in Ireland. On the way there, she meets a movie star (Jedidiah Goodacre) and they flirt the whole plane ride, and it turns out they re staying at the same host house, a cozy B&B in the small Irish town of Carlingford. Imagine that!
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To convey the experience of the young-adult romance “Finding You,” here are some characters: There’s protagonist Finley Sinclair, a tall, blond violinist; heartthrob actor Beckett Rush and unfeeling manager-father Montgomery Rush; Beckett’s shallow costar Taylor Risdale; and there are regular Irish folks named Seamus (who is habitually drunk), Molly and Patrick.
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