Wedding Banquet (Xi yan) (1993)

7.6	Listal rating
7.5	IMDB rating

Directed by

Ang Lee

Starring (View all)

Mrs. Gao

Mr. Gao

Wei-Wei

Wai-Tung Gao

Mitchell Lichtenstein

Simon

Dion Birney

Andrew

Jeanne Kuo Chang

Wai-Tung's Secretary

Paul Chen

Guest

Written by (View all)

Ang Lee

writer

Neil Peng

writer

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I don't understand! No, I don't.

5 years, 1 month ago at May 13 23:57

Abhi

2 votes

One of Ang Lee's earliest works, this comedy/drama is an excellent mix of unconventional characters, delicate family dynamics, cross cultural exchanges and a decidedly mixed ending. Ang Lee knows how to extract humour from settings that are not over the top and write compassionate yet flawed characters that don't feel artificial.

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A very average movie

2 years, 2 months ago at Mar 31 7:11

johanlefourbe

2 votes

Way before Brokeback Mountain, Ang Lee directed this gay-themed jem. Thanks to this movie and its critical success, his career took off and he was then able to create all this following amazing features. The movie itself is a comedy but a sensitive one and it deals very well with the subject and it is simply very entertaining.

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Welcome to the Chinese wedding of the year, where everyone wants to kiss the bride... except the groom! This "top-notch comedy" (Leonard Maltin) is nothing less than delicious.

Release date : 4 August 1993
UPC: 027616906915

Comedy (6), Drama (5), Gay (4), Chinese (4), Coming Out (4), Romance (4), Glbt (3), New York (3), Taiwan (3), 1990s (3), Homosexual (2), Marriage (2), Wedding (2), Usa (1), Romantic Comedy (1), Homosexuality (1), Hilarious (1), Asian (1), Funny (1), Gay Romance (1)

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"Ang Lee’s first film about gay characters, The Wedding Banquet is a comedy of errors that follows a gay Taiwanese immigrant who marries a Chinese woman in order to appease his parents. But things go wrong when his parents turn up for the wedding. Side-splittingly funny and poignant."