The Big Sick SPOILER-FREE Review

For pretty much the entire year, I have been hearing nonstop about how great The Big Sick is. It's been playing at festivals, garnering a lot of buzz and excitement. So I've been looking forward to seeing it for a while now. I've known who Kumail Nanjinani is, but I don't think I've actually ever really seen him in anything. And I was completely unaware of who Zoe Kazan was. What caught my eye about this film was the casting of Ray Romano and Holly Hunter as the parents. I've been a fan of Romano for a long time, but he hasn't really been in anything much recently other than the Ice Age films. So I was excited to see what he would do with a movie like this. And Hunter is a great actress, so I'm always excited to see her in things. Unless it involves "Granny's Peach Tea", that is. So the cast overall intrigued me, as did the story. This is the true story of how Kumail met his real-life wife, and I found that fascinating. So I walked into t…