The Wedding Banquet
囍宴
“ A little deception at the reception. ”
CINEMA1993-03-01
RegionTW / US
Runtime108 MIN
Media TypeMovie
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Storyline
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.
DIRECTOR / Director
Ang Lee
KEYWORDS
coming outnew york citysecret lovehusband wife relationshipparent child relationshipwedding nightmarriage of convenienceinterracial relationshipmale homosexualityman pretending to be straightweddinglgbtchinese restaurantsecret relationshipgay theme
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