Storyline
Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings.
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Cast
Ray Romano, Bo Burnham, Jack O'Connell, David Alan Grier, Holly Hunter, Jeremy Shamos, Adeel Akhtar, Anupam Kher, Marilyn Torres, Zoe Kazan, Linda Emond, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Kumail Nanjiani, Ed Herbstman, Myra Turley, Aidy Bryant, Susham Bedi, Matthew Cardarople, Jeff Blumenkrantz, Andrew Pang, Sophia Muller, Zenobia Shroff, Kurt Braunohler, Vella Lovell, Shenaz Treasury, Kuhoo Verma, Mitra Jouhari, Celeste Arias, Shana Solomon, Holly Chou, Alison Cimmet, Lawrence Ballard, Shunori Ramanathan, Spencer House, Rahul Bedi, William Stephenson, Kerry Flanagan, Charles Gould, Isabel Shill, Lauren Patten, Keilly McQuail, Zach Cherry, Jack Corrigan
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Reviews
100
It’s a perfect marriage of direction, performances, and writing, the kind of comedy that people eagerly wait for. Its solutions aren’t easy, and its paths unusual, but it’s a love story that completely earns its emotional peaks, and the kind of comedy that makes you wish every single one of them were this great.
90
One of the best things about The Big Sick is that the obstacles facing this relationship are real and relatable. It’s a funny movie, but it’s about really serious stuff.
90
Comedian and actor Kumail Nanjiani and writer Emily V. Gordon mine their personal history for laughs, heartache, and hard-earned insight in The Big Sick, a film that’s by turns romantic, rueful, and hilarious.
83
The Big Sick plays less like a great movie than a platform for its appealing tone, but it’s so well acted and dense with insights into the culture clash at its center that nothing about the central dynamic is strained.
83
There’s a certain flat indie artlessness to “The Big Sick,” but it’d be shortsighted to discount how well-written and well-acted it is. This is a very funny movie, yet always plausibly so—never throwing in jokes just for the sake of a laugh.
