The Big Sick

Starts Friday August 4th!

SXSW – Audience Award winner, and highly acclaimed Oscar nominee favourite! From the SXSW award winning director of My Name Is Doris!

98% Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes! “Funny, heartfelt, and intelligent”

4 / 4 Stars! “funny and smart and wise and silly, it is romantic and sweet and just cynical enough, and it is without a doubt one of the best romantic comedies I have seen” – Chicago Sun-Times

Kumail (Kumail Nanjiani), in the middle of becoming a budding stand-up comedian, meets Emily (Zoe Kazan). Meanwhile, a sudden illness sets in forcing Emily to be put into a medically-induced coma. Kumail must navigate being a comedian, dealing with tragic illness, and placating his family’s desire to let them fix him up with a spouse, while contemplating and figuring out who he really is and what he truly believes.