Probably my favourite movie of 2017. I'm going to be biased because it's a about a man whose girlfriend winds up in a coma who has to deal with her parents who are having marriage troubles - things I've been through, and which the film gets right. And also it refers to cricket.
But it is warm and lovely comedy full of very good observation. It's got two aces in the hole - the coma stuff, which is done well, and the fact he's a Pakistani American and she's a white girl, so the look at the relationship is very fresh.
It's beautifully done - the casting is immaculate. Like a lot of Judd Apatow productions, even the small bits really shine - I loved the annoying flatmate who everyone dislikes and is perennially annoying, and the beautiful Pakistani girl who just wants a nice guy and a relationship so she "can finally relax" (she gets the end of the scene too).
My only gripe is it started to drag towards the end - after the girl told the guy she didn't want to see him again, I felt maybe some of those other goodbye scenes could've been truncated and the two other scenes where she tells him to go away maybe could've been combined or even deleted. Great end though.
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