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The Wedding Banquet. The Wedding Banquet [3] is a 1993 romantic comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Ang Lee. The story concerns a bisexual Taiwanese immigrant man (played by Winston Chao, in his film debut) who marries a mainland Chinese woman ( May Chin) to placate his parents ( Gua Ah-leh and Lung Sihung) and get her a green card.
Aug 4, 1993 · 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.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Ang Lee
- 1993-08-04
Aug 4, 1993 · 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 Lee. Director, Screenplay.
Aug 27, 1993 · 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 ...
Released in United States November 2001 (Shown at AFI Fest 2001: The American Film Institute Los Angeles International Film Festival (Tribute) November 1-11, 2001.) Nominated for six 1993 Spirit Awards by the Independent Feature Project/West, including best picture, best actor (Mitchell Lichtenstein), best actress (May Chin), best supporting ...
Simon and Wei-Tung are a gay couple living together in Manhattan. To defer the suspicions of Wei-Tung's parents, Simon suggests a marriage of convenience between Wei-Tung and Wei-Wei, an immigrant in need of a green card. When Wei-Tung's parents come to America for the wedding, they insist upon an elaborate banquet, resulting in several ...
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Jan 17, 2006 · Based on cost-to-earnings ratio (with global grosses of $30 million), Wedding Banquet was the most profitable film of 1993, beating even Spielberg’s Jurassic Park. Oscar Context: The film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, but did not win. It was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award.
