FINDING FAITH (2025)

Name: FINDING FAITH (2025)
Item: FINDING FAITH (2025)
Author: Review

"Out of the Darkness and into the Light"

Family Content: -1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.

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What You Need To Know:

In FINDING FAITH, a devoted wife and mother struggles to regain her footing when a family tragedy sweeps away her peace and joy. Faith has made her husband, Jaylen, everything. His accidental death is more than she can handle. As her family and a pastor reach out to her, she spirals until she hits rock bottom, with drugs, drunkenness and disorder. Can Faith find something beyond herself in the midst of grief?

FINDING FAITH’s formula is simple, with people helping another person find God when life hits them hard. It sometimes substitutes storytelling with preaching at the audience, but much of the movie focuses on painting a biblical picture of how to deal with grief. The two leads, Paula Patton and Stephen Bishop, give heartfelt performances. FINDING FAITH has a strong Christian, moral worldview. Characters speak openly about their faith in God, Jesus and the Father. They attend church, pray and help a struggling mother turn to Christ. However, FINDING FAITH has brief foul language, a scary bus crash, sexual connotations, and substance abuse. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children and teenagers.

Content:

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Very strong Christian, biblical, moral worldview with some Romantic elements;

Foul Language:

Two obscenities and one strong profanity;

Violence:

An opening scene shows a bus full of people singing turn over and crash (it is left unclear whether the passengers are dead or alive), a later scene shows the same crash with a bloodied man rescuing several bloodied teenagers from a bus that’s on fire, and a person overdoses on drugs but is saved by a friend and medical staff;

Sex:

A married couple celebrate their anniversary with dancing, kissing and caressing in preparation for strongly implied sexual intimacy, woman meets a stranger at a night club and begins to engage in sexual relations but backs out (there’s some grabbing, caressing and removal of clothing before the scene ends);

Nudity:

No explicit nudity, but a woman in grief wears a very revealing top with lots of cleavage, and two women at a bar and at home wear revealing clothing;

Alcohol Use:

Woman drowns her grief in alcohol multiple times;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

Woman vapes to deal with her grief, woman takes drugs in a few scenes to deal with her grief, and woman overdoses on drugs and alcohol but is saved by a friend; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

A woman’s grief drives her to let her house and life fall into disarray, and mother’s dangerous behavior causes her son to be taken from her.

More Detail:

In FINDING FAITH, the protagonist, Faith Mitchell, struggles to find her center after a family tragedy sweeps away her peace and joy. Having made Jaylen, her husband, her everything, losing him is more than she can handle. As her family and a pastor reach out, she spirals until she hits rock bottom, with drugs, drunkenness and disorder. Can Faith find herself and something beyond herself in the midst of grief and mourning?

FINDING FAITH would seem to be a Christian FINDING FORRESTER of sorts, but without the literary flair. Its formula is simple, with one human being helping another to find out who they really are when life hits them hard. However, Faith is not Forrester, there is no connection to J. D. Salinger, and the acting is not of the caliber of Sean Connery. As with some faith-based Christian movies, FINDING FAITH sometimes substitutes meaningful storytelling with preaching at the audience. However, a good portion of the movie paints a dramatic biblical picture of how to deal with grief as a Christian. In doing this, the movie achieves some real drama and the two leads, Paula Patton and Stephen Bishop, who play Faith and the pastor, give heartfelt performances. It also has some thoughtful and gripping moments, such as when a man gives his life rescuing several young boys from a burning bus and when Faith begins to grow beyond her grief. Also, the movie’s message is positive and true, despite lacking some subtlety.

FINDING FAITH has a strong Christian, moral worldview with many overt Christian references. Characters speak about their faith in God, Jesus and the Father openly. They go to church, pray and try to help a struggling mother turn to Christ. The movie depicts Faith’s struggles in a realistic way. For example, it doesn’t shy away from depicting her descent into drugs, drunkenness and disorder. Ultimately, though, FINDING FAITH shows how fallen people can overcome personal struggles in and through the Lord of Life. However, the movie has brief foul language, a scary bus crash, sexual connotations, and depictions of substance abuse. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children and teenagers.