A feel-good rom com that touches on some important themes of prefudice and bias: The Big Sick

The romcom 2017 movie The Big Sick is a (mostly) feel-good movie w/ a strong comic line that recalls and brings into the 20-teens a movie like When Harry Met Sally (cute meet, seemingly mis-matched couple, gradually learning to love and commit to each other) with a touch of Love Story no less (gravely ill daughter brings disparate family elements together), along w/ a few contemporary touches of its own, including a reasonably realistic view of the life of a standup comedian (doubling as an Uber driver, which leads to one of the best gags in the movie) and, more important, a smart and sensitive look at the struggle of a young Pakistani immigrant who faces down a lot of prejudice and bias and as he tries to remain close to his traditional Pakistani family, which believes in arranged marriages. Kumail Nanjiani basically plays himself in the lead, and he's a winning presence as a comedian and altogether good guy; Ray Romano does a fine comic turn as well as the oafish father of KN's girlfriend (Zoe Kazan, very winning even though for half the movie she's in a coma).  I have to quibble and say that the movie feels stretched - 2 hours is 30 minutes too long for a romantic comedy like this - and that Nanjiani and co-writer (Emily V. Gordon) tie some of the plot strands to quickly and too neatly (e.g., Holly Hunter's sudden turnaround from KN's adversary to his champion), but that said I give them props for leaving a few threads untied at the end (which I won't divulge). Apparently this film is loosely autobiographical; in any event, it's worth a look.