The Wedding Banquet

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The Wedding Banquet
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R,1hr 51min
Released:
January 1, 1993
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MGM
Synopsis: A gay New Yorker stages a marriage of convenience with a young woman to satisfy his traditional Taiwanese family, but the wedding becomes a major inconvenience when his parents fly in for the ceremony. Director Ang Lee came to international prominence with this warm-hearted comedy, which centers on the farcical confusion that emerges from this deception. Gao Wai Tung (Winston Chao) has never shared the truth about his sexuality with his family, and hopes to disguise his long-term relationship with ... Full Synopsis
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Ang Lee's breakthrough film, The Wedding Banquet puts a different, multicultural spin on family and romantic comedy with winning results. Taking a low-key approach to a set-up that is potentially the stuff of slapstick farce, Lee still finds the humor as the intended marriage of convenience between a gay Taiwanese immigrant in New York and an infatuated female tenant in need of a green card is thrown ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Wai Tung
Wei-Wei
Mr. Gao
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