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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.
The two men go back to the time when China fell to the Communists. The friend offers his facilities gratis to have a "Wedding Banquet". As events proceed, the real relationship becomes strained during the effort to hide things from the parents. The wedding banquet does take place.
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In the movie THE WEDDING BANQUET, a homosexual couple live happily together when one decides to marry so he can get a tax break. The film, a winner of the Golden Bear Award at the 1993 Berlin Film Festival and Best Film and Best Director at the 1993 Seattle International Film Festival, is well directed and contains credible acting despite its abhorrent premise which parodies marriage and ...
The Wedding Banquet is a 1993 romantic comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Ang Lee. The story concerns a gay Taiwanese immigrant man who marries a mainland Chinese woman to placate his parents and get her a green card. His plan backfires when his parents arrive in the United States to plan his wedding banquet and he has to hide the truth of his gay partner. It was a co-production ...
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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Countdown Video Use this 3 minute “You Are Invited” Parable of the Wedding Banquet countdown video quiz to mark the start of your service, game, or transition. The quiz focuses on questions related to Matthew 22:9-10.
1993. 1 hr 46 min. 7.6 (16,985) The Wedding Banquet is a 1993 movie directed by Ang Lee, that tells the story of a young New York-based Taiwanese-American named Wai-Tung Gao, played by Winston Chao, who is in a loving relationship with his gay partner Simon, played by Mitchell Lichtenstein. However, Wai-Tung's parents, who still live in Taiwan ...
