The Wedding Banquet

7.2 1993 Ang Lee 1h 48m
Comedy Drama Romance
The Wedding Banquet

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.

Cast

Winston Chao Winston Chao Gao Wai-Tung
Gua Ah-leh Gua Ah-leh Mrs. Gao
Lung Sihung Lung Sihung Mr. Gao
May Chin May Chin Gu Wei-Wei
Mitchell Lichtenstein Mitchell Lichtenstein Simon
Vanessa Yang Mao Mei
Dion Birney Andrew
Jeanne Kuo Chang Jeanne Kuo Chang Wai-Tung's Secretary

Double Feature Pairings

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