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1993 · Taiwan, United States

The Wedding Banquet

Tonight at a glance

Runtime
108 min
Age rating
R
Language
Chinese
Country
Taiwan, United States

Why tonight?

  • In Chinese — subtitles on.

The story

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.

  • coming out
  • new york city
  • secret love
  • husband wife relationship
  • parent child relationship
  • wedding night
  • marriage of convenience
  • interracial relationship
  • male homosexuality
  • man pretending to be straight

The look

A few frames, chosen rather than collected.

The bill

Directed
Ang Lee

Production

Rating
7.2 / 10 · 296 ratings
Studio
Ang Lee Productions, Good Machine, Central Motion Picture Corporation, The Samuel Goldwyn Company