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‘Spoiler Alert’ Review: Jim Parsons & Ben Aldridge In Adaptation Of Michael Ausiello’s Memoir
29.11.2022 - 20:23 / deadline.com
Spoiler Alert is about as funny and upbeat a film you could possibly make when the subject is the illness and death of one of the partners in the central relationship. It’s a gay Love Story with laughs, albeit with a twist, as the film challenges itself to be both amusing and emotionally involving where matters of life and death are concerned. Fortunately, it manages to more or less succeed on both counts due to its ever-ready wise-crack nature and sympathetic direction.
“I’ve always imagined that my life was like a typical romantic comedy,” announces Michael (Jim Parsons), a dweeby-but-funny New York-based sitcom writer who one Monday night uncharacteristically ventures into a New York gay club. Even more uncharacteristically, Michael meets, horses around with and ultimately brings big guy Kit (Ben Aldridge) over to his Jersey apartment, leaving an embarrassed Michael unable to hide his extensive Smurfs collection, long this man/boy’s passion.
Despite such potential turn-offs, Kit pursues the relationship for reasons that may initially remain unclear but are nonetheless plausible enough given the charm of watching these two very different men interact; given Michael’s childlike proclivities, one wonders if he’s had any significant sexual experiences at all (addressing this question might have been interesting). Whatever the case, he has something that pleases Kit and the two make for an unusual and appealing odd couple.
The real Michael Ausiello’s 2017 memoir detailing his 13-year relationship and marriage began with the statement, “This isn’t the way it was supposed to end,” and cheekily carries with it the subtitle, The Hero Dies. The disappearance of the subtitle notwithstanding, the film directed by Michael
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