The Wedding Banquet

A gay New Yorker stages a marriage of convenience with a young woman to satisfy his traditional Taiwanese family, but the wedding becomes a major inconvenience when his parents fly in for the ceremony. Director Ang Lee came to international prominence with this warm-hearted comedy, which centers on ...more

Ang Lee's breakthrough film, The Wedding Banquet puts a different, multicultural spin on family and romantic comedy with winning results. Taking a low-key approach to a set-up that is potentially the stuff of slapstick farce, Lee still finds the humor as the intended marriage of convenience between a gay Taiwanese immigrant in New York and an infatuated female tenant in need of a green card is thrown into chaos by the arrival of the groom's proud parents. The elaborately staged eponymous party ...more