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Jun 20, 2017 · No. The Big Sick is not based on a book. It is from an original screenplay by the movie's subjects, Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon. However, Gordon is a published author and a former couples and family therapist. She wrote the tongue-in-cheek self-help book Super You: Release Your Inner Superhero, published in 2015.
Jun 22, 2017 · Nanjiani — who admits that “when I have a 99-degree fever and a sniffling nose, I’m such a baby” — follows suit in solidarity. “I don’t really take care of her in the traditional ...
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 ...
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Jun 26, 2017 · The Big Sick, directed by Michael Showalter, is an adaptation of Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon's own love story, which involved her becoming sick in the early stages of their relationship ...
Jul 6, 2017 · Kumail Nanjiani, right, and Zoe Kazan portray a couple in love in “The Big Sick.” (Lionsgate via AP) By Moira Macdonald. July 6, 2017. “I felt like, if we don’t tell a story about a Muslim ...
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Jun 23, 2017 · The Big Sick. It sounds impossible—too melodramatic, too crazy—but it’s true. Actor and writer Kumail Nanjiani fell in love with his then-girlfriend, now-wife, Emily V. Gordon, when she was in a coma. It also sounds impossible that such a story would make for a crowd-pleasing comedy, but that’s exactly what “The Big Sick” is, and so ...
Jul 14, 2017 · The Big Sick: Directed by Michael Showalter. With Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter, Ray Romano. Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash.
