The Big Sick - wikipedia The Big Sick The Big Sick Theatrical release poster Directed by Michael Showalter Produced by Judd Apatow Barry Mendel Written by Emily V. Gordon Kumail Nanjiani Starring Kumail Nanjiani Zoe Kazan Holly Hunter Ray Romano Adeel Akhtar Anupam Kher Music by Michael Andrews Cinematography Brian Burgoyne Edited by Robert Nassau Production company FilmNation Entertainment Apatow Productions Distributed by Amazon Studios Lionsgate Release date January 20, 2017 ( 2017 - 01 - 20 ) ( Sundance ) June 23, 2017 ( 2017 - 06 - 23 ) ( United States ) Running time 117 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $5 million Box office $52.1 million The Big Sick is a 2017 American romantic comedy film directed by Michael Showalter and written by Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani. It stars Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter, Ray Romano, Adeel Akhtar, and Anupam Kher, and follows an interracial couple that has to deal with their cultural differences, loosely based on the real - life romance between Nanjiani and Gordon. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2017. It began a limited theatrical release on June 23, 2017, by Amazon Studios and Lionsgate, before going wide on July 14, 2017. It received positive reviews, becoming one of the most critically acclaimed films of 2017. With a budget of $5 million, it has grossed more than $52 million worldwide, becoming one of the highest - grossing independent films of 2017. Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 3.1 Casting 3.2 Writing 3.3 Filming 4 Release 4.1 Box office 4.2 Critical response 4.3 Accolades 5 References 6 External links Plot Kumail is a young Chicago standup comedian who drives for Uber and performs at night. His traditional Pakistani Muslim immigrant parents set their son up with many Pakistani women to encourage him to follow their example of an arranged marriage. During a show Kumail is heckled by Emily, a non-Muslim woman in the audience. After the show he approaches her, and what begins as a one - night stand soon blossoms into a relationship. Kumail has a complicated relationship with his family and native culture, uninterested in Islam or arranged marriage but insisting on performing a poorly received one - man show about his early life in Pakistan. He does not tell his family about Emily, as they would disapprove and disown him, and avoids meeting her parents. Emily finds pictures of the women Kumail 's parents have set him up with ; when Kumail says he can not lose his family so does not see a long - term future with her, Emily ends their relationship. Kumail learns that Emily has been taken to the hospital after fainting. A doctor tells him that Emily has a serious lung infection and must be immediately placed in a medically induced coma with tracheal intubation. He signs the permission form and calls her parents, Beth and Terry. Aware that Kumail hurt their daughter they assure him that he is no longer needed, but Kumail chooses to stay and the three become close as they deal with Emily 's illness. Surgery is ineffective and the infection spreads to Emily 's kidneys. Beth wants to transfer Emily to a different hospital, but Kumail and Terry disagree. Beth and Terry argue, and she brings up Terry 's past. That night, Terry stays with Kumail and reveals that he cheated on Beth and regrets it. Terry 's story helps Kumail realize that he cares deeply about Emily. Kumail 's parents visit his apartment, angry that he is not taking their marriage suggestions seriously. Kumail tells them that he does not want an arranged marriage and reveals his relationship with Emily ; as he feared, his parents disown him. As Kumail prepares for an audition for the Montreal Comedy Festival, he learns that the infection has reached Emily 's heart. Emotionally distraught, Kumail fails the audition because all he can talk about is his fear that Emily will die. Emily awakens from her coma. The doctors explain she has adult - onset Still 's disease, a very rare but treatable illness which Kumail inadvertently helped them diagnose. Still bitter from their break - up, Emily tells Kumail to leave. Beth invites Kumail to Emily 's welcome home party. In private, Kumail asks Emily to take him back, but she again says no. Kumail decides to move to New York City with two comedian friends. Before he leaves, he again performs the one - man show on Pakistani culture, then tells his family about his plans to leave but refuses to allow them to disown him. Emily discovers the video of Kumail 's disastrous performance and visits him after his one - man show, where he tells her about New York. Although disappointed, she tells Kumail she appreciates everything he did for her while she was in a coma. At a performance in New York, Kumail is heckled by someone in the crowd ; he sees that it is Emily. During the credits, photos are shown from the actual courtship and wedding of Emily Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, including photos of his family attending the ceremony. Cast Kumail Nanjiani as himself Zoe Kazan as Emily Gardner ( based on Emily V. Gordon ) Holly Hunter as Beth Gardner, Emily 's mother Ray Romano as Terry Gardner, Emily 's father Adeel Akhtar as Naveed Zenobia Shroff as Sharmeen Anupam Kher as Azmat Bo Burnham as CJ Aidy Bryant as Mary Rebecca Naomi Jones as Jessie Kurt Braunohler as Chris Shenaz Treasury as Fatima David Alan Grier as Andy Dodd Vella Lovell as Khadija Linda Emond as Dr. Cunningham Production In December 2015, it was announced Kumail Nanjiani would star in the film from a screenplay written by him and wife Emily V. Gordon, while Judd Apatow would produce alongside Barry Mendel, under their Apatow Productions banner, while FilmNation Entertainment would finance the film. Michael Andrews composed the film 's score. Casting In February 2016, Zoe Kazan joined the cast, along with Holly Hunter and Ray Romano in April 2016. Unlike many of the other portrayals in The Big Sick, Romano 's and Hunter 's roles in the film were not modeled after Emily V. Gordon 's actual parents. Instead, Hunter revealed that she never contacted or met Gordon 's mother in preparing for her role, explaining : `` I never even met ( co-writer ) Emily ( V. Gordon ) 's mother. I never spoke with her on the phone... I wanted to feel my own freedom with the character. In May 2016, Aidy Bryant, Bo Burnham, and Kurt Braunohler also joined the cast of the film. That same month, Adeel Akhtar joined the cast of the film. David Alan Grier was cast in The Big Sick after he met with Emily V. Gordon when she was a writer for The Carmichael Show. Grier 's role was part of a larger subplot that was ultimately cut from the film 's release. Anupam Kher 's casting in the film was reported in June 2016. He was directly contacted by Kumail Nanjiani himself, as Nanjiani 's own father had recommended Kher play the role. According to Kher himself, his character 's last scene in the film was the first scene he had filmed for the production. The Big Sick marks Kher 's 500th appearance in a feature film. Writing The screenplay for The Big Sick is written by Emily V. Gordon and her husband Kumail Nanjiani and is loosely based on the real - life courtship between them before their marriage in 2007. According to Nanjiani, the idea to make a script about them was first inspired by the film 's eventual co-producer Judd Apatow when the two met while appearing in a 2012 episode of the You Made It Weird podcast. Developed over the course of three years, the script has been called semi-autobiographical because, in addition to the two lead characters modeled after them, many of the events occurring during Gordon and Nanjiani 's relationship are noted as being portrayed to an extent in the film. Though not part of the original script, a real - life incident involving Holly Hunter heckling an unnamed player during a US Open tennis match inspired a similar scene in the film where Nanjiani 's character is heckled during one of his stand - up sets. Filming Principal photography began on May 11, 2016. Release The Big Sick premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2017. Shortly after, Amazon Studios acquired distribution rights to the film, after bids from Sony Pictures and Fox Searchlight Pictures. The $12 million acquisition marked the second - largest deal of the 2017 festival. Lionsgate partnered with Amazon on the U.S. release, and spent around $20 million on marketing the film. It also screened at South by Southwest on March 16, 2017, where it won an Audience Award in the category Festival Favorites. The film began a limited release on June 23, 2017, before going wide on July 14, 2017. Box office As of September 24, 2017, The Big Sick has grossed over $42.7 million in the United States and Canada, and over $9.4 million in other territories, for a total gross of over $52.1 million. In the film 's limited opening weekend, it made $421,577 from five theaters ( a per - theater gross of $84,315, the best of 2017 ), finishing 17th at the box office. The film expanded to 2,597 theaters on July 14, 2017, and was projected to gross $9 -- 11 million over the weekend. It grossed $7.6 million over the weekend, finishing fifth at the box office. On July 25 the film crossed $26 million, becoming the second highest - grossing independent film of 2017. Critical response On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 98 % based on 219 reviews, with an average rating of 8.2 / 10. The site 's critical consensus reads, `` Funny, heartfelt, and intelligent, The Big Sick uses its appealing leads and cross-cultural themes to prove the standard romcom formula still has some fresh angles left to explore. '' On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film received an average score of 86 out of 100, based on 47 critics, indicating `` universal acclaim. '' Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of `` A '' on an A+ to F scale. According to a poll conducted by AwardsDaily in July 2017, polling one hundred critics, The Big Sick was voted the second best film of 2017 so far, behind Get Out. In a review for the Toronto Star, Peter Howell gave The Big Sick four stars out of four, praising the film as `` hilarious and heartbreaking '', as well as applauding the performances of the entire cast. Richard Roeper similarly gave the film four stars out of four in his review for the Chicago Sun - Times, labeling it as `` without a doubt one of the best romantic comedies I have seen in a long time. '' The Big Sick was also selected as an `` NYT Critic 's Pick '' by Manohla Dargis of The New York Times. In her review, Dargis praised Michael Showalter 's direction and the screenplay by Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani for `` revitalizing an often moribund subgenre with a true story of love, death and the everyday comedy of being a 21st - century American. While praising the lead performances of Nanjiani and Kazan, Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph wrote a mixed review for The Big Sick. Collin contends that director Showalter `` never comes close to dampening down its leading couple 's inextinguishable appeal. '' In a negative review for The New Yorker, Richard Brody claims that the film `` suffers from an excess of pleasantness, and this very pleasantness thins out its substance, blands out its tone, weakens its comedy. '' Accolades Award Date of ceremony Recipient ( s ) and nominee ( s ) Result Ref. South by Southwest March 18, 2017 Audience Award : Festival Favorites Michael Showalter Won References Jump up ^ `` THE BIG SICK ''. British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved September 25, 2017. Jump up ^ `` Peter Bart : Can ' The Big Sick ' Grab Healthy Box Office Take Among Summer Tentpoles ? ''. Deadline.com. June 15, 2017. ^ Jump up to : `` The Big Sick ( 2017 ) ''. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved September 24, 2017. Jump up ^ `` First Comes Love Then Comes Coma ? The Amazing Real - Life Romance of the Couple Behind The Big Sick ''. People. July 10, 2017. 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Question: who is in the movie the big sick
Answer: Kumail Nanjiani
Zoe Kazan
Holly Hunter
Ray Romano
Adeel Akhtar
Anupam Kher