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The Big Sick
Directed by Michael Showalter
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. From TMDB
98 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Oct 28, 2026 · last updated Oct 29, 2026 · How this works
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The Big Sick is a 2017 comedy drama romance film, directed by Michael Showalter, starring Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan and Holly Hunter.
- 89 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews
- posts span May 27, 2017 to Oct 28, 2026
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60 of 98 · most liked firstMy previous coffee cup post reminded me of this: During The Big Sick (a film w a lot of eating), Holly Hunter insisted we actually eat the food. No spit buckets. And she'd bring up our big eating scene constantly. "Don't forget. On Wednesday, we're eating." She's amazing in every possible way.
positive · AI labelView post →Remembering years ago when Kumail got mad at me on twitter for saying The Big Sick was a pretty bad film and honestly in retrospect I’m just glad he didn’t become an anti woke reactionary like so many of his colleagues did
negative · AI labelView post →Played some Trivia Murder Party last night and everyone was surprised that I didn’t get a question about The Big Sick right because I’m the movie person of the group. Buddy, unless it was made in the 1930s or involves Jackie Chan in some way, I can’t help ya.
neutral · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Megan 2.0 was more focused on the sci-fi elements than the first one, but is still mostly a fun movie. Superman 3 was a mess, I didn't remember it very well. The Big Sick was both touching and funny. The Sound of Music I was watching as the year changed.
positive · AI labelView post →I saw that @cahutch1990.bsky.social was posting about The Big Sick so I looked it up. I thought, “That looks really good”. So Wes and I jumped the gun and watched it. Turns out I’d seen it before and it is so good!! Lots of the f word but otherwise such a sweet funny movie based on a true story!
positive · AI labelView post →Watching The Big Sick for the third time. I love this movie.
positive · AI labelView post →#JanuaryMovieChallenge #Filmsky #Movies 1/19 Somebody gets food at a drive through in a movie The Big Sick (2017) youtu.be/nSDi-bSAcQ8?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Are there really people who like rom-coms who have never seen THE BIG SICK? The Kumail Nanjiani-Zoe Kazan film based on Nunjiani and real-life wife Emily V. Gordon's love story? Genuinely one of best, least formulaic, and sincerely funny movies made in the genre. If you missed it, rectify that now!
neutral · AI labelView post →#SeptemberMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky 8. Asian American in a movie Kumail Nanjiani - The Big Sick
neutral · AI labelView post →He & his wife wrote The Big Sick…great movie!!
positive · AI labelView post →Do you guys want to hear a nice story about a celebrity? I’ve always been a fan of @kumail.bsky.social, ever since his stand-up days. Particularly loved his movie THE BIG SICK, based on the story of how he & his wife got together (highly recommend btw— it’s hilarious & sweet). (1/)
positive · AI labelView post →#NovemberMovieChallenge Hospital in a movie The Big Sick (2027) Based on Kumail Nanjiani's dealings his, then girlfriend, now wife's parents as she was in a coma with Still's desease
neutral · AI labelView post →I couldn’t think of any movies with #Geriatricians but the Big Sick for #hospitalist work- I loved the movie and the #medical part is limited but no you do not need an OR and general anesthesia and a thoracic surgeon to do a diagnostic thoracentesis
positive · AI labelView post →Someone put The Big Sick on pornhub? Wow, I guess that means I finally found a porn movie with good dialogue, good acting, and an actual plot! Who knew?
positive · AI labelView post →The Big Sick is a beautiful film about the fragility of life. It's also a rom-com about second chances that are driven by love, personal growth, and the connection of shared experiences. That it's based on real-life only makes it hit harder. #FilmSky
positive · AI labelView post →There's a great 9/11 joke in The Big Sick (2017) that still felt a little shocking for a mainstream movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Stand-up comedy, families, and a coma. These are the parts that make up our latest entry into the Never Seen It Movie Club. Check out our #Patreon as we talk about the charming and funny movie: The Big Sick. www.patreon.com/neverseenitpod
neutral · AI labelView post →I found my copy of The Big Sick and also I started crying in the middle even though it's a movie i've seen and I know how it ends Been that kind of Tuesday or whatever
positive · AI labelView post →I've mentioned this before, but if you've seen The Big Sick, this is the disease that film is about. Emily V. Gordon is a bit of a legend.
neutral · AI labelView post →My admiration for @kumail.bsky.social ("The Big Sick" is such a unicorn movie. How could anyone not absolutely love it?) led me to watch Taskmaster S21 on the plane. Finishing it tonight. This show is 100% my sense of humor. At least this season. I'm guffawing constantly. What S should I watch next?
positive · AI labelView post →I’ll add that when I taught Intro to Film, my favorite student reactions were to the subversion and adherences to genre norms in The Big Sick. He’s got such a great comedic mind.
positive · AI labelView post →Goes without saying, if you haven't watched the mostly autobiographical movie he co-wrote with his wife, Emily, "The Big Sick"... one of my very favorite movies ever... watch it. Even my cranky mom adored it. Kumail is just great. I'm teary over Night Thoughts. So good.
positive · AI labelView post →Have you seen his movie The Big Sick? I love him. A very touching movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Anyway I can't find my copy of The Big Sick so I put on my copy of Stuber and it started with the trailer for Booksmart so I aborted and put on my copy of Booksmart and it started with the trailer for Stuber so I reborted. Am watching Stuber. No one loves her* like me (* the classic film, Stuber)
neutral · AI labelView post →That’s awesome! Also way more people should see The Big Sick. Great movie.
positive · AI labelView post →One of the many great things about The Big Sick is that it's a movie I could comfortably watch with my parents. Not every movie needs to be that way, but TBS had "watch with parents" energy.
positive · AI labelView post →The Big Sick great disability rep, funny as hell. A comfort movie for me
positive · AI labelView post →The Big Sick I love this movie so much
positive · AI labelView post →Actually I lied the greatest example of how completely arbitrary the rules are for evaluating race by purely visual standards is Vella Lovell being cast as Khadija in the Kumail Nanjiani film "The Big Sick" because the character is supposed to be South Asian and Vella Lovell is European/Jewish/Black
neutral · AI labelView post →2024 Movie #141 THE BIG SICK - Dir: Michael Showalter ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sweet, true story of Kumail Nanjani and his wife, Emily Gordon’s meet cute relationship as boy meets girl, boy loses girl, girl goes into coma story. Great look at the Pakistani-immigrant community, too. 📽️
positive · AI labelView post →His movie the Big Sick was great too.
positive · AI labelView post →We watched "The Big Sick" movie because of two things (1) it scored high eg 93 tomatoes & (2) It was by written by & starred a Pakistani comedian - the cousin of STV News Anchor's Shereen Nanjiani! Is was not as good as I'd hoped & seemed rather indulgent. I learned nothing new sadly. B movie
negative · AI labelView post →THE BIG SICK, any BOURNE movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →We saw Kumail in The Big Sick not long ago. Live action short film: I predict A Friend of Dorothy. #hatm
neutral · AI labelView post →Ooo, if you haven't already watch his movie The Big Sick. it is a semi-autobiographical film and Kumail is HILARIOUS in it. one of the few times i could tolerate Ray Romano.
positive · AI labelView post →2nd best. First best has gotta be the joke in the movie “The Big Sick.”
neutral · AI labelView post →The Big Sick 2017 Autobiographical cross-cultural rom-com with unusual emotional depth. #filmsky #movies #film #cinema
neutral · AI labelView post →"The Big Sick" is the name of the film. It's a Rom com. A good one too. The movie itself is about Kunail and his wife's real love story basically.
neutral · AI labelView post →I was in a movie theater for the Big Sick which. If you haven’t seen. Is not scary at all! And there was an incredibly creepy horror trailer before the movie. And just as I am about to complain to my friend, across the theater a woman calls out loudly “oh, hell no!” Most right person in a movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Just finished watching The Big Sick. What a lovely film.
positive · AI labelView post →Some Like It Hot The Empire Strikes Back (Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher are 100% in their own Rom Com in this movie) 10 Things I Hate About You Shaun of the Dead The Big Sick The Idea of You Grosse Point Blank - seconded!
neutral · AI labelView post →He’s great, his semi-biographical indie movie about meeting his now wife and her mystery illness (The Big Sick) is also great
positive · AI labelView post →I’ve been recommending his movie The Big Sick to anyone who hasn’t seen it yet.
positive · AI labelView post →Just watched a movie called The Big Sick never heard of it, had no idea what it was about, only information she gave me was that it was "prismo's voice actor" Great time
positive · AI labelView post →Thanks. Saving it for later. Just did a rewatch of "The Big Sick." Woof. What a good movie.
positive · AI labelView post →You've seen his movie The Big Sick, about the start of their relationship and Emily's fight with a serious illness? Excellent movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Thanks, I’ll check it out (you saw his movie The Big Sick?)
neutral · AI labelView post →Actor/Comedian, returning to stand up after 10 years. Also co-wrote The Big Sick with his wife, Emily Gordon and also played the male lead role. Great movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →I didn’t truly appreciate why my now-husband introduced me to his parents within months of dating until we watched The Big Sick together a couple years ago and I was like “ohhhhh, you didn’t want me to think you were doing thaaaaat”. Because I barely knew it was a thing people did. Good movie!
positive · AI labelView post →Movies I can recall her recapping to me: - Interstellar (imagine) - Ad Astra - The Martian - Gloria Bell - Harry Potter 1 - Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom - The Big Sick - some movie w/ Dave Franco where someone had a hidden camera in an Airbnb
neutral · AI labelView post →Same. The Big Sick is a favorite movie of mine.
positive · AI labelView post →So I have not watched commercial channels for years but there is this interesting movie “The Big Sick” Well I have not been subjected to voice over promo’s which seem so Pase & dated with the clatter of noisy music compression to give some sort of buzz . It’s a sad state for those subjected to this
neutral · AI labelView post →The Big Sick (no but like actually, it's a really good movie)
positive · AI labelView post →You need to write another brilliant movie like The Big Sick. I know the other projects make more $, but your gift is to the world.
positive · AI labelView post →Dude, I never even knew about that movie. I just checked IMDb, it’s streaming on Prime Video. I know what I’m watching tonight. Shrinking on AppleTV+ and then The Big Sick (2017)! Holly Hunter is the best! Ray Romano is good too.
neutral · AI labelView post →Whenever anyone asks for a RomCom suggestion that they may not have seen, my first response is always The Big Sick. Funny, sweet movie.
positive · AI labelView post →🎉 Big shoutout to the incredibly talented #KumailNanjiani! 🌟 From his hilarious role in #SiliconValley to his heartfelt performance in #TheBigSick, he never ceases to amaze us. 🙌 Whether he's making us laugh or touching our hearts, Kumail is a true gem. 💎 #Inspiration #ComedyGold #MovieMagic
neutral · AI labelView post →The Big Sick (2017) is a cornerstone relationship movie for my wife and I. A great example where the more specific the film's scenario, the more universal the emotional beats can feel.
positive · AI labelView post →RT @[email protected]: For those of you who wanna watch #TheBigSick with your families & don’t have Amazon Prime or can’t afford to purchase it: The whole movie is available on pornhub. Don’t ask me how I know. It’s under “interracial.” This is not a joke.
neutral · AI labelView post →Having an dumb day and rewatching the Big Sick and it's perfect. This movie doesn't get enough attention. I love how much Kumail captured the human breakdown of watching helplessly as someone you love suffers. He's pretty brilliant for sharing something so personal and life changing.
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