

The Wedding Banquet
1993-03-01 · 108 min · ★ 7.2
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.
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Production details
- Directors
- Ang Lee
- Production companies
- Ang Lee Productions, Good Machine, Central Motion Picture Corporation, The Samuel Goldwyn Company
- Countries
- Taiwan, United States of America
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- USD 875,000
- Revenue
- USD 23,633,459
Top Cast
Gua Ah-lehMrs. Gao
Lung SihungMr. Gao
May ChinGu Wei-Wei
Winston ChaoGao Wai-Tung
Mitchell LichtensteinSimon
Jeanne Kuo ChangWai-Tung's Secretary
Michael GastonJustice of the Peace
Neal HuffSteve
Mason LeeBaby
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