The Wedding Banquet

Mar 1, 1993

1h 48m

★ 7.2

A little deception at the reception.

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Ang Lee Productions

Good Machine

Central Motion Picture Corporation

The Samuel Goldwyn Company

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Cast

Gao Wai-Tung

Winston Chao

Mrs. Gao

Gua Ah-leh

Mr. Gao

Lung Sihung

Gu Wei-Wei

May Chin

Simon

Mitchell Lichtenstein

Mao Mei

Vanessa Yang

Andrew

Dion Birney

Wai-Tung's Secretary

Jeanne Kuo Chang

Justice of the Peace

Michael Gaston

Steve

Neal Huff

Baby

Mason Lee

Joe

John Nathan

This is a psychological film exploring the love story revolving around two beautiful women - Thien Kim and Bao Nhi. Face to face in a game where only one person wins, when the happiness of a small home is about to be swept away by a storm, who will fiercely fight for what they want and who will resign to keep peaceful?

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