The Wedding Banquet

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Taiwan / USA, 1993, 106 min

Directed by:

Ang Lee

Cinematography:

Jong Lin

Composer:

Mader
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Plots(1)

Successful New Yorker Wai Tung and his partner Simonare blissfully happy, except for one thing: Wai Tung's conservative Taiwanese parents are determined he find a nice girl to marry! To please themand get a tax breakhe arranges a sham marriage to Wei Wei, a sexy go-getter in need of a green card. But when his family swoops down for the extravaganza, Wai Tung would do well to remember that at a traditional Chinese wedding banquet, sexual repression takes the night off! (official distributor synopsis)

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Reviews (1)

kaylin 

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English Ang Lee surprised me with this film, but he's just an example of a director who can skillfully handle essentially any genre. And this homosexual comedy is presented so beautifully humanely that it just has to entertain you. It's not as funny as I expected, but it's the lightness of the humor and the overall concept that can disarm you. ()