ComedyDramaRomance
The Wedding Banquet
"A little deception at the reception."
User Score282 votes
72%7.2/10
Release1993→
Runtime1H 48M
LanguageMandarin
StatusReleased
Synopsis
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.
Principal Cast8
Winston Chao
Gao Wai-Tung
Gua Ah-leh
Mrs. Gao
Lung Sihung
Mr. Gao
May Chin
Gu Wei-Wei
Mitchell Lichtenstein
Simon
Vanessa Yang
Mao Mei
Dion Birney
Andrew
Jeanne Kuo Chang
Wai-Tung's Secretary
Media15
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Director
Ang Lee
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Box Office
Budget$1M
Revenue$24M
Certification
RKeywords
coming outnew york citysecret lovehusband wife relationshipparent child relationshipwedding nightmarriage of convenienceinterracial relationshipmale homosexualityman pretending to be straightweddingfamilylgbtchinese restaurantsecret relationshipgay theme
Collection
Father Knows Best Collection
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Countries:TaiwanUnited States of America
Production:Ang Lee ProductionsGood MachineCentral Motion Picture CorporationThe Samuel Goldwyn Company