“A little deception at the reception.”
The Wedding Banquet
7.2
295 votes·1993
·1h 48m
·MovieComedyDramaRomance
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.
Commercial Verdict
Blockbuster
Revenue vs Budget27.0x
0x1x2x3x4x5x
Massive commercial success
Keywords
coming outnew york citysecret lovehusband wife relationshipparent child relationshipwedding nightmarriage of convenienceinterracial relationshipmale homosexualityman pretending to be straightweddingfamily
Cast
Gua Ah-leh
Mrs. Gao
Lung Sihung
Mr. Gao
May Chin
Gu Wei-Wei
Winston Chao
Gao Wai-Tung
Mitchell Lichtenstein
Simon
Vanessa Yang
Mao Mei
Dion Birney
Andrew
Jeanne Kuo Chang
Wai-Tung's Secretary
Michael Gaston
Justice of the Peace
Neal Huff
Steve
Mason Lee
Baby
John Nathan
Joe
Chung-Wei Chou
Chef
Paul Chen
Guest A
Yung Chung
Guest B
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