A Quick Tip by Sharrie

The Wedding Banquet (Chinese: 喜宴; pinyin: Xǐyàn; Wade-Giles: Hsi yen), is a 1993 film about a gay Taiwanese immigrant man who marries a mainland Chinese woman to placate his parents and get her a green card. His plan backfires when his parents arrive in the United States to plan his wedding banquet.

The film was directed by Ang Lee and stars Winston Chao, Mitchell Lichtenstein, May Chin, Ah Lei Gua, Dion Birney, Sihung Lung, and others. The Wedding Banquet is the first of three movies that Ang Lee would make about gay characters; the second is Brokeback Mountainand the third being Taking Woodstock. Lee himself makes a cameo appearance in the film as a wedding guest attending the banquet. The film is a co-production between Republic of China and the United States.

Plot:

Wai-Tung Gao (Winston Chao) and Simon (Mitchell Lichtenstein) are a happy gay couple living in Manhattan. Wai-Tung is in his late 20s, so his Taiwanese parents (Sihung Lung and Ah-Leh Gua) are eager to see him get married and have a child. The early part of the movie is madcap comedy. When Wai-Tung's parents hire a dating service he and Simon stall for time by inventing impossible demands. Chinese opera singers are always men, so they demand an opera singer and add that she must be very tall, must have two Ph.D.'s and ...

Cast: Michael Gaston, Sihung Lung, Ah-Leh Gua, Winston Chao, Jeffrey Howard, Neal Huff, John Nathan, Patricia Sullivan, May Chin, Mitchell Lichtenstein, Mason Lee, Ang Lee

Director: Ang Lee

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Release Date: January 1, 1993

MPAA Rating: R

Screen Writer: Ang Lee

Runtime: 1hr 51min