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‘Spoiler Alert’ Review: Jim Parsons Brings Heart and Conviction to Michael Showalter’s Rom-Com Tearjerker
In his best film, ’s The Large Sick, director Michael Showalter showed a deft hand balancing interracial rom-com conventions with an affecting dash of hospital drama to deliver a love story distinguished by humorous, culturally specific insights and tender depth of feeling. Spoiler Alert in many ways is a queer companion piece, exploring another relationship drawn from real life, this time between gay men. The chief difference, as the title and opening scene indicate, is the outcome of the illness, pushing the new movie further into traditional weepie territory, a move accepted with a winking nod to Terms of Endearment.
There are elements of preciousness and quirks that can lean toward the cutesy, even if they do come directly from show journalist Michael Ausiello’s memoir about his 13 years with photographer Kit Cowan. I mean, how many gay men would stick around after an early appointment reveals a collection of Smurf merchandise that has taken o
‘Spoiler Alert’ Gives Its Closure Away and Gains Something Sweeter in the Process
During the opening scene of Spoiler Alert, the camera observes a couple cradling each other in a hospital bed. In his voiceover monologue, Michael (Jim Parsons) tells us that his husband Kit (Ben Aldridge) will soon pass away of cancer.
Even though the audience immediately knows where this is going, Michael and Kit’s relationship is depicted as a value story rather than “just a tragic sob story” (Michael Ausiello’s words, who wrote the memoir of the same name). And so Spoiler Alert appears to be a straightforward walk down the well-traveled road of movie rom-coms.
Michael and Kit embody the trope of an “opposites attract” couple. Kit’s the cool New York Metropolis kid: he’s an amateur photographer, his arty friends wear the right outfits to nightclubs, they observe and feel at house grooving on the boogie floor. When Kit asks Michael to dance, Michael declines and says it’s really not his scene. A few dates later, he reluctantly brings Kit to his New Je
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Spoiler Alert is a moving, hilarious, and devastating production that provides Sally Field with a good role as the mother of a gay guy who has terminal cancer. Since she is so wonderful in the production and has a gay son in real life, I expected her to speak passionately about the movie based on Michael Ausiello&#;s best-selling memoir. But the movie is barely mentioned in this disjointed interview with Stephen Colbert where more moment is spent on tired topics appreciate Gidget, The Flying Nun and The Actor&#;s Studio. Heard about it, peruse about it many, many, many times. What a wasted opportunity to promote this wonderful clip starring Jim Parsons as Ausiello and Ben Aldridge as his husband, Kit Cowan. Since a clip was not shown during Neglect Field&#;s appearance, here are some below. Spoiler Alert is in select theaters this Friday and nationwide December 9th.
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Sally Field &#; 3 Day Oscar Winner and LGBTQ Activist
&#;I’ve flown on wires, surfed in the ocean, rode on horses in wagon trains and adv cars. I’ve had multiple personalities, worked in a textile mill, and picked cotton. I&#;ve been Mrs. Doubtfire’s employer, Forrest Gump’s mother, Lincoln’s wife, and Spider-Man’s aunt.
&#;On stage was the one place I could freely be me. When I got off stage, I felt shy, and careful, and hidden. I would think and rethink everything before I could do anything. But on stage I never knew what I would declare or do. I would surprise myself.
&#;I wasn’t looking for the applause or attention, even though that’s nice—sometimes. It was never about a need to hide behind the characters of other people. Acting to me has always been about finding those few precious moments when I feel totally, utterly, sometimes dangerously ALIVE! So the task has always been to find a way to get support to the work—to claw my way to it, if necessary.
“Struggling to mount out of the box of situation comedies in the 60s and 70s took a fierceness I didn’t know I had. I