The Big Sick — directed by Michael Showalter, and produced by 21st century mogul of mirth Judd Apatow — feels like the kind of project
designed to introduce a wider audience to a performer beloved among their peers but
only fleetingly glimpsed elsewhere: a multiplex - ready rom - com, co-authored by Nanjiani with wife Emily Gordon, and based on the pair's
unconventional courtship.