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- 2022
- PG-13
- Focus Features
- 1 h 52 m
- 2022
- PG-13
- Focus Features
- 1 h 52 m
Summary Based on Michael Ausiello’s best-selling memoir Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies, the film is a heartwarming, funny and life-affirming story of how Michael (Jim Parsons) and Kit’s (Ben Aldridge) relationship is transformed and deepened when one of them falls ill.
Directed By: Michael Showalter
Written By: David Marshall Grant, Dan Savage, Michael Ausiello
- 2022
- PG-13
- Focus Features
- 1 h 52 m
- 2022
- PG-13
- Focus Features
- 1 h 52 m
Spoiler Alert
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7.1
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Summary Based on Michael Ausiello’s best-selling memoir Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies, the film is a heartwarming, funny and life-affirming story of how Michael (Jim Parsons) and Kit’s (Ben Aldridge) relationship is transformed and deepened when one of them falls ill.
Directed By: Michael Showalter
Written By: David Marshall Grant, Dan Savage, Michael Ausiello
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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59% Positive
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36% Mixed
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5% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
61
59% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
36% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
5% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Spoiler Alert is a film that tells a story of a not-so-perfect relationship that will make you laugh, cry, and feel like you're part of Michael and Kit's life.
Just in time for the holidays, director Michael Showalter has gifted viewers with a good old-fashioned tearjerker, one that earns its tears without resorting to a brute force assault on your heartstrings. Spoiler Alert operates with a lot of humor and more than a little grace.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 User Ratings
7.1
71% Positive
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
18% Mixed
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12% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 User Ratings
7.1
71% Positive
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
18% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
12% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
Eu perdi meu companheiro para o câncer no ano passado, quando vivíamos nossa melhor fase, já morando juntos, em ascensão profissional, com tantos planos... Tínhamos também o apoio de toda família, e essa maldita doença veio de forma rápida e devastadora. Sem condições de analisar esse filme racionalmente, só me resta chorar e tentar conter a saudade. Te amo, Douglas, pra sempre.
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Both Parsons and Aldridge surrender to the material, and we are moved as Kit and Michael come to a deeper understanding and appreciation of their love for each other.
At times Spoiler Alert feels like an edgy, clever film that plays wittily on the main character’s lifelong obsession with TV. At others, it feels like a more formulaic, holiday-themed tearjerker — the passing years are marked in a Christmas card montage! — that wrings our tears in unsubtle ways.
Despite the narrative elements that are part of Michael’s coping mechanisms, Aldridge and Field effectively salvage the emotional core of “Spoiler Alert,” bringing us back to the heart of the matter, and giving space to the feelings that should flow freely in a film like this.
It made me cry at the end, but my tears were as canned and untrustworthy as the sound of a sitcom laugh track. I could barely remember what I had just watched, only that it was often honest enough to make me want to be with my family but never specific enough to justify the fact that I wasn’t.
By the time the interminable finale reaches, over-reaches and gracelessly makes its exit, we’ve lost track of anything we found sweet, funny, charming or touching that came before it.
I literally cried my eyes out. I loved this movie and this story so much. It's so authentic, and heartbreaking but funny and heartwarming. Besides an incredible cast, the character of Michael (I am a big fan of Ausiello as well) felt so awkwardly close to what many people are, complex, difficult and charming. A piece of **** cinema that I won't forget!
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I really enjoyed this movie. It was a sincere romance film that was also incredibly funny, with humour interspersed even throughout the excruciatingly sad portions. Ben Aldridge delivered an outstanding performance the entire time, flawlessly showcasing his range. This story was all the more intriguing because it was based on a book, and the actors remark that they drew heavily from Kit Cowan's artefacts and the original source material. When I watched this movie, I both laughed and cried. Although nothing shone out in a particularly remarkable way, it was still one of the better vacation romance films.
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I'm not quite sure about making the comparison, but I couldn't help myself from making it in my head while watching it, as Spoiler Alert accomplishes with stunning ease what Bros couldn't.
However, the big problem is that this film tackles a dramatic side that clouds the connection and relationship of Jim Parsons and Ben Aldridge's characters, which is basically the driving force of this story.
Had this been a full-on comedy, it would have been great to see their interactions vary, but being a drama where one is dealing with an illness, there are only so many places the two of them can explore.
Nonetheless, I found Spoiler Alert to be a pretty effective film, even if its proposed plot has been seen several times before.
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Just like the memoir this is based on, the film lets you know right up front that the boyfriend (Ben Aldridge) is going to die. That leaves the rest of the movie to watch their relationship develop. Jim Parsons plays the other half (and narrates), a mild-mannered writer who ends up with the handsome guy "out of his league." When they're meeting and falling in love, the dialogue and their chemistry keeps it interesting and upbeat. Needless to say, when the illness starts, things get heavy. Surprisingly, even with a touching final scene, the emotional impact was not hankie-worthy. The premise is very Hallmark and the result pretty much stays in that mold without much to make it memorable. NOTE: Stay thru the early credits for a short video of the real guy.
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Production Company
Semi-Formal Productions,
That's Wonderful Productions
Release Date Dec 2, 2022
Duration 1 h 52 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline Love never stops surprising you. Even when you know how it ends.
Awards
The Queerties
• 3 Nominations
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Casting Society of America, USA
• 1 Nomination
