# The Big Sick

The Big Sick is a 2017 film about an interracial couple who must deal with cultural differences as one of them becomes ill.
    Directed by Michael Showalter. Written by Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani.

## Kumail Nanjiani

* Your driver will be ready as soon as he puts on his pants.
* I read in an interview with Hugh Grant, he said he doesn't smile because it makes his face look fat. So I didn't smile in pictures for many years.
* Apparently, there are good and bad comas. And the kind that they put her in, the medically induced ones, are definitely the good kind of coma. Like you know how there are good and bad carbs? Gremlins, those can be good or bad.
* Look at me. Look me in the eyes when you fuck me! Look at me. PLEASE! (after fast-food worker refuses his order)
* It’s just really hard to do standup comedy when your girlfriend is in a coma.

## Emily Gardner

* (to Kumail) Naw dog. I'm not joking. You're not funny to me. You just make me sad. You make me sad inside of my heart, and it makes me sad to look at you. So I think you should probably go. Just go and tell my mom I want her. (Kumail is stunned.) Will you please get my mom?

## Terry Gardner

* So, uh, 9/11? No, I mean, I've always wanted to have a conversation about it with... (pauses) people.

## Other

* Azmat Nanjiani: (to Kumail) You should be stylish like your father. It's not very difficult. Just observe me.
* Sharmeen Nanjiani: Since when are you someone to stand up? You know who I think should stand up is Malala. She has something to say, she has something to say!
* Naveed Nanjiani: Listen to yourself. You hardly sound Pakistani. "Cookies"? You sound like Julia Louis-Dreyfus. You're such a burger.

## Dialogue

    Azmat: Look at these jeans, Kumi. They're from Citizens of Humanity, that's the brand's name. Touch them. They're so soft.
    Kumail: I don't want to touch your jeans.
    Kumail: How's your sandwich?
    Beth: Best fucking sandwich I ever had.
    Terry: [rhetorically] Who goes to a math conference to get laid?
    Kumail: Math teachers?
    Worker at fast-food drive-thru: Welcome to Quick'n Hot. May I take your order please?
    Kumail: Yeah, um can I get a burger with four slices of cheese.
    Worker: Four burgers. Anything else sir?
    Kumail: No. One burger with four slices of cheese. (Silence.) One burger with four -
    Worker: I'm sorry. We can't do that.
    Kumail: Just put four slices of cheese on a burger.
    Worker: We can’t do that. There's no button -
    Kumail: Who the fuck is this "we", man? Who the fuck is this "we"? It’s me and you. We're just people. Fucking listen to me. Fuck this corporate entity. Put four slices of cheese on THE FUCKING BURGER.
    Worker: (silence) We can't do that.
    Emily: (spitting out drink) What is that crap?
    Nurse Judy: We have to thicken your liquids for a bit. Your esophagus isn’t strong enough to swallow yet.
    Emily: That shit tastes like semen.
    Terry: That's nice for a father to hear.
    Mary: I know you did not get Montreal and that is only because you did one of the worst sets I’ve ever seen in my goddamn life.
    CJ: It was nonsense.
    Mary: A living disgrace.
    CJ: I would call it shit, but I would be worried that I'd be insulting actual shit.
    Mary: Yeah, it was so bone-chilling to me, I thought a ghost had passed right through me.
    Kumail: We don't have to keep going over how bad the set was. I saw their faces and the noises they didn't make.
    Mary: I felt one of my eggs die.
    Kumail: Doesn't that happen every month?
    Emily: Hey guys, I think I might just pop out for a bit.
    Terry: By yourself?
    Emily: Yeah, just hop around the block, maybe get some frozen yogurt.
    Terry: Are you okay? Can you do it, can you walk by yourself?
    Emily: Yeah, Dad.
    Beth: Have fun.
    Terry: If you feel a coma coming on, call us.
    Emily: Dad, it's too soon.

## Taglines

* An Awkward True Story

## Cast

* Kumail Nanjiani — Kumail Nanjiani
* Zoe Kazan — Emily Gardner
* Ray Romano — Terry Gardner
* Holly Hunter - Beth Gardner
* Anupam Kher - Azmat Nanjiani
* Zenobia Shroff - Sharmeen Nanjiani
* Adeel Akhtar - Naveed Nanjiani

## External links

* The Big Sick quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* The Big Sick at Rotten Tomatoes