The Wedding Banquet (1993)
15
23/09/1993 (GB)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
1h 48m
- 72% (254 votes)
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A little deception at the reception.
Overview
A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding.
- Ang LeeDirector, Screenplay
- Neil PengScreenplay
- James SchamusScreenplay
Original Title
喜宴
Status
Released
Original Language
Chinese
Budget
$875,000
Revenue
$23,633,459
Keywords
- coming out
- new york city
- secret love
- husband wife relationship
- parent child relationship
- wedding night
- marriage of convenience
- interracial relationship
- male homosexuality
- man pretending to be straight
- wedding
- family
- lgbt
- chinese restaurant
- secret relationship
- gay theme
Top Billed Cast
Gua Ah-leh
Mrs. Gao
Lung Sihung
Mr. Gao
May Chin
Wei-Wei
Winston Chao
Wai-Tung Gao
Mitchell Lichtenstein
Simon
Neal Huff
Steve
Michael Gaston
Justice of the Peace
Mason Lee
Baby
Dion Birney
Andrew
John Nathan
Joe
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