SPOILER ALERT (2022)

 

Directed By: Michael Showalter 

Written By: Dan Savage and David Marshall Grant

Based On The Book: SPOILER ALERT: THE HERO DIES. By Michael Ausiello 

Cinematography: Brian Burgoyne

Editor: Peter Teschner 

Cast: Jim Parsons, Ben Aldridge, Sally Field, Bill Irwin, Nikki M. James, Jeffrey Self, Sadie Scott, Josh Pais, David Marshall Grant, Jason Gotay, Antoni Porowski 

The story of Michael Ausiello and Kit Cowan's relationship takes a tragic turn when Cowan is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Based on a true story, Though it’s still has a kind of tragedy that the title alerts you to, and even the title of the memoir it’s based upon. Which usually is a cliché in LGBTQ stories. Here it is used as an emotional resonance as for the film, it provides an ending, but also a catharsis as this is truly a love story with a beginning, a middle, and an end so that each stage is clearly representing an emotional and it’s on Waze

As it is a love story, it shows the beautiful beginnings. Where are you think it’s going to be the happily ever after, it also does present and show the problems. The small details are usually a part of a real-life love story, but in the movie usually cruise over or never show. 

The happily ever after is only at the end of act one there’s so much more road to travel, and at times it feels unflinching. Nothing is completely solved, but we see how to deal.

It also presents the love story as something universal that everyone can understand and gives humanity to the main characters who are gay and is more of a mainstream love story 

I will admit what attracted me to the story and personalize it is that it’s about an entertainment journalist who I have read over the years and can easily identify with his passion for pop culture, which I think will strike many in the audience

It’s just a beautiful love story after all, and the fact that it’s based on a true story, only helps it as many times it will leave the audience emotional with happiness, joy, and sadness like

No, it does have its points that are more inventive and imaginative. It always stays reliably true even when it reaches its quirky moments. 

The film it’s a lot deeper than expected and you can appreciate its nuances. Though the title says it alone, it still offers. Plenty of warm, surprises and emotions. Where are you? Truly fall in love with the characters as they fall in. Love with each other.

In the end, it’s just been an affecting beautiful story slice of life, if anything love story that most of us dream ever hope for. It’s so heartwarming it feels like a Christmas movie which is what one of the characters is obsessed with.

Director Michael Showalter makes another heartfelt emotional character, driven comedy, wherein its heart is a nerd in love.

Grade: B