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The banquet is the movie's great set piece, as booze and tradition and deception and expectation all come together, and lead, in an unlikely way, to happiness. "The Wedding Banquet" is not a particularly slick film; the plot construction feels contrived, and the acting of the two younger men is somewhat self-conscious, although the parents are ...
The Wedding Banquet: Directed by Ang Lee. With Ah-Lei Gua, Sihung Lung, May Chin, Winston Chao. To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand.
Mrs. Gao. Wai-Tung (Winston Chao) and his boyfriend (Mitchell Lichtenstein) live happily as a gay couple in New York City. Wai-Tung has not been open about his sexuality with his Taiwanese parents ...
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- Comedy, LGBTQ+
- R
The Wedding BanquetTrailer. Synopsis. Wei-Tung who settles down in the US has been keeping a secret of being gay from his parents in Taiwan and is in a stable relationship with his white boyfriend Simon. He has to put up with being rushed to get married constantly by his parents. Simon comes up with an idea which is that he can get a fake ...
Wedding Banquet, The. To defer suspicions from his conservative parents, a gay man enlists the help of a female neighbor in a marriage of convenience, but when they arrive from Taiwan, they insist on a hosting a traditional Taiwanese wedding dinner and ceremony. 203 IMDb 7.6 1 h 48 min 1993. X-Ray R.
Brief Synopsis. Gao Wai, a gay New Yorker, has never shared the truth about his sexuality with his traditional Taiwanese family, and hopes to disguise his long-term relationship with his lover Simon by marrying Wei-Wei, a young artist who's only it for the green card. But Gao's parents refuse to let him off the hoo.
Jun 15, 2004 · Winner of the Berlin Film Festival's prestigious Golden Bear, The Wedding Banquet is "top-notch comedy" (Leonard Maltin)! Successful New Yorker Wai Tung and his partner Simonare blissfully happy, except for one thing: Wai Tung's conservative Taiwanese parents are determined he find a nice girl to marry!
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