*Warning: Potential Spoilers*
The Big Sick is one of the many, many, many movies to have fallen victim to poor marketing choices, but it almost does the film a favor. The film was shown to audiences as a very fun romantic comedy, with an emphasis on the comedy since the lead actor Kumail Nanjiani is a well known stand-up comedian. While the film definitely is funny, and the romance between Nanjiani and costar Zoe Kazan is an adorably sweet one, the actual story gets deep in a way that I certainly was not expecting when I bought my tickets. A part of me assumed that it would be like any stand-up comedy show, just maybe with a story added to it (almost like a musical based around a band’s CD like “Tommy” or “Across the Universe”), but some well-rounded performances and the honesty of the humor that there was kept the story sweet enough that it could be a rom-com, but also deep enough that you don’t feel that the story is completely cliche and unoriginal.
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