Spoiler Alert, the “tearjerker” drama starring The Big Bang Theory’s Jim Parsons, has found a new streaming home in the UK.
The 2022 film, based on Michael Ausiello’s 2017 memoir of the same name, sees Parsons portray the author, whose relationship with Kit (Ben Aldridge) is turned upside down after Kit falls ill.
Directed by Michael Showalter from a screenplay by David Marshall Grant and Dan Savage, Spoiler Alert made only $1.4 million worldwide upon its original release, but the film will have a wider audience in the UK after it was added to Netflix on Monday (June 9).
Co-starring Sally Field and Antoni Porowski, Spoiler Alert received positive reviews from critics despite its slim box office return, with the film currently boasting an impressive approval rating of 87% on Rotten Tomatoes from 94 reviews.
In the site’s critical consensus, the comedy-drama was bolstered by the “strong performances” from the “talented cast”, which were said to keep the film from straying over to the side of “saccharine”.
“Spoiler Alert is an endearing romance in the first half and an effective tearjerker in the second, and both aspects work as intended,” wrote Deep Focus Review, while The Canberra Times echoed these sentiments as they dubbed it a “mostly sweet tearjerker”.
“Beautiful, devastating, and achingly honest, Spoiler Alert is a sweet, relatable love story,” wrote Morbidly Beautiful as they paid testament to the “gut-wrenching ending”, with the publication adding that the film captured the “moments that give our life meaning”.
The Hollywood Reporter was also positive, writing: “This is a love story that’s frank about the waning of passion, the ebb of sexual desire, the curdling of affection into irritation, infidelity and the seeming death knell of the trial separation.”
Deadline was similarly enthusiastic as they lauded the film for its “ever-ready wise-crack nature and sympathetic direction”, while Arizona Republic described it as “beautifully balanced and well-paced”.
