Mark Harrison Dec 24, 2017
Our countdown of our top ten films of the year begins in earnest with The Big Sick...
Films Of 2017: The Big Sick (10th place)
You don't see many comedy movies based on true stories. Yes, writers and performers will borrow from experience in trying to make us laugh, but when something in this genre tries a faithful version of that 'based on actual events' thing, it usually means the story itself was so funny it had to be a movie, and there can be a lot of meta-winking to that status for laughs.
That's not so with The Big Sick, a romantic comedy with dead serious stakes and a frankly startling emotional range. Billed as “an awkward true story”, the inspiration comes from married screenwriters Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, who recount the health scare that defined their unusual courtship. Nanjiani, who you might know...
Our countdown of our top ten films of the year begins in earnest with The Big Sick...
Films Of 2017: The Big Sick (10th place)
You don't see many comedy movies based on true stories. Yes, writers and performers will borrow from experience in trying to make us laugh, but when something in this genre tries a faithful version of that 'based on actual events' thing, it usually means the story itself was so funny it had to be a movie, and there can be a lot of meta-winking to that status for laughs.
That's not so with The Big Sick, a romantic comedy with dead serious stakes and a frankly startling emotional range. Billed as “an awkward true story”, the inspiration comes from married screenwriters Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, who recount the health scare that defined their unusual courtship. Nanjiani, who you might know...
- 12/21/2017
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