This film is based on a true story. Kumail was born in
Pakistan and he is working on becoming a stand-up comedian. He meets grad student Emily and they
start a relationship but they don’t know where it’s going? Suddenly, Emily is hospitalized
with a lung infection.
It’s so serious that it requires her to be put into a medically induced
coma. Kumail wants to be there for
her but the comedy business is tough and he feels a coma is beyond his scope of
involvement? He wonders if he’s
known her long enough to become a part of the hospital situation? Plus, another complication is that his
background includes an arranged marriage to a woman from Pakistan. Kumail meets Emily’s parents and he
begins to get to know them during hospital visits.
You can tell that this
is a Judd Apatow produced movie!!
Some of the comedy scenes are very funny and others fall very flat!! I’m not sure about the scenes with Ray
Romano and Holly Hunter as the parents?
A lot of their scenes are just annoying? 3* (This movie is OK)
120
min, Comedy directed by Michael Showalter with Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan,
Holly Hunter, Ray Romano, Anupam Kher, Zenobia Shroff, Adeel Akhtar, Bo
Burnham, Aidy Bryant, Kurt Braunohler, Vella Lovell, Myra Lucretia Taylor.
Note: Imdb 7.7 out of 10, 98% critic 89%
audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 3 ½*, Amazon 4.6* out of 5* with 1258
reviews, Metacritic 86 out of 100 with 47 critics 7.1 out of 10 with 258
reviews.
Special
Note: Filmed in Chicago, Illinois. Emily V. Gordon and her husband Jumail
Nanjiani wrote the screenplay.
It’s loosely based on their real life courtship before their marriage in
2007. A meeting with Judd
Apatow inspired the idea for the film.
They met working together on a 2012 episode of You Made It Weird
podcast.
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