‘It Ends With Us’ Sets Netflix Streaming Date in December

Netflix has announced that “It Ends With Us,” the Colleen Hoover movie adaptation starring Blake Lively, will begin streaming on Netflix in the U.S. on Dec. 9. The film had its theatrical release Aug. 9 and went on to exceed industry expectations and gross over $350 million worldwide, becoming one of the year’s biggest commercial hits.

Directed by co-star Justin Baldoni, “It Ends With Us” follows Lily Bloom (Lively) and Ryle Kincaid (Baldoni) as they pursue a romantic relationship. However, Lily soon starts to recognize shades of her parents’ relationship, leading her to wonder if she’s falling into the same cycle of abuse and domestic violence. Things become even more complicated when Lily’s first boyfriend, Atlas (Brandon Sklenar), re-enters the picture.

Jenny Slate, Isabela Ferrer, Alex Neustaedter, Kevin McKidd and Amy Morton round out the rest of the cast.

Owen Gleiberman’s positive review for Variety compared the film to a good soap opera, explaining that: “‘It Ends with Us’ is a story of how people repeat bad patterns in their lives, even (or maybe especially) when they don’t realize it. And the way this is conveyed is at once the essence of soap opera and also quite emotionally shrewd.”

The film’s press tour did amass online controversy with an apparent feud between Lively and Baldoni leaving doubt about whether the two will ever work together again. There were also concerns from fans that the film’s promotional materials glorified domestic violence. It remains unclear if there will be a film adaptation of “It Starts With Us,” Hoover’s 2022 follow-up to her original best-selling novel.