1993 1h 48m Ang Lee

The Wedding Banquet

Name: The Wedding Banquet
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Released: 1993
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Winston Chao, Gua Ah-leh, Lung Sihung, May Chin

★ 7.6 IMDb

Romance Comedy Drama

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.

Writers Neil Peng, Ang Lee, James Schamus

Cast Winston Chao, Gua Ah-leh, Lung Sihung, May Chin

DP Lin Jong

Essays and Criticism

On this film

The Wedding Banquet review – an unexpected delight by Laura Venning, Little White Lies

In conversation with other films

Marriage of Inconvenience: On “The Wedding Banquet” and Green-Card Comedies by Kim Hew-Low, MUBI Notebook

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