The Wedding Banquet
by Ang Lee
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Actor: Dion Birney, Jeanne Kuo Chang, May Chin, Paul Chen, Winston ChaoDirector: Ang Lee
Producer: Ang Lee
Writer: Ang Lee
Producer: Dolly Hall
Producer: Feng-Chyt Jiang
Producer: James Schamus
Writer: James Schamus
Writer: Neil Peng
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Running Time: 106 minutes
Release Date: 1994-09-28
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Fox Home Entertainment
Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
VHS Movie Reviews of The Wedding Banquet
Movie Review: about the DVDfilm/movie wedding banquet............
Summary: 4 Stars
This story is basically about how a falke wedding marriage successfully held from one stage to another leaving the old couple a memory of the whole event from photos taken. Recommended to those whom are interested in this genre of DVDfilm/movie. also known as wedding bung kueh...hee hee...
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Dr, MR Franc MBBS (PhD) GPS Ang Poon Kah
Director lou Ye for film summer palace.
Movie Review: Gay, Green Card, Generation (Gap)
Summary: 5 Stars
(This one is for Steve Hedge.)
This film is directed by a clever Taiwanese director, Ang Lee, who was honored the academy's award a few years ago.
This black comedy has several layers: the gay, the immigration, and the old generation (the parents). An interracial relationship is never easy when you have a conservative Taiwanese parents and you are gay. A 'green' marriage could help you out from creating a mirage to your parents. Seems a win-win situation before your parents smell something fishy...
It's a great film depicts the culture shock, generation gap, and immigration issues. Yes! It's a must see.
Movie Review: Wedding Banquet Fantastic
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie was fantastic. You get to see how culture affects the way two men in love live their lives. The two main actors have to hide what they really feel for each other and this causes problems in their relationship. One of the men is white and the other is Chinese, but even though there are many cultural differences the two men love each other. It was a heartwarming and funny film. It is evident that this movie was low-budget but this fact only helps to make the movie look more realistic. I highly recommend this movie. :)Movie Review: quirky and well-directed.....
Summary: 4 Stars
I must say that it was quite intriguing to watch this film, directed by Ang Lee, after watching another one of his earlier films that he was well-known for [EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN]. This "comedy of errors" storyline is as chaotic as it is engaging. A Taiwanese-American man (Winston Chao) involved in a long term relationship with his White gay lover (Dion Birney) must pretend to be straight when his parents come to town. What's more, they want to find him a good Taiwanese wife. Though, he makes it clear that his standards are impossibly high, his parents find the woman who matches ALL of his qualifications. Thus, the plot thickens. I won't ruin it for you. I will say that it is, both, a comedy of errors and a human drama of bombastic proportions. The themes include those of loyalty, bicultural identity and familial duty. As usual, Ang Lee is in fine form with this one.Movie Review: Before Ang became a superstar director for Crouching Tiger
Summary: 4 Stars
and opened the door for a flood of mostly fantastic Asian movies, he made this disfunctional/functional family film. So well done and believable, not sappy at all. The actors are excellent and played their parts well. Very successful [...] yuppie couple, one couple's parents don't know he's [...] so his mom keeps sending him applications and pictures of available Chinese mail order brides, he keeps making out the applications with more and more impossible requirements for one person to have, like, has to speak 5 languages, has to sing opera, has to have 3 doctorial degrees, stuff like that. It's been successful so far but, his parents are getting impatient and want a grandchild, so he makes a bargain with one of his illegal tennants, she wants a green card he needs a wife for a week or so. Parents arrive, his father,a retired general, is in ill health, so they have a quickie wedding at city hall. They go out to dinner after, and just happen to pick a Chinese resturant that is owned by a former soldier in his fathers regement. He is so honored that his former general is at his resturant he offers to foot the bill for a lavish wedding banquet. So, the banquet is held ,it is a beautiful and fun filled affair. After the celebration the bride and groom go up to their room and are more than slightly tipsey, have sex, and of course she gets pregnant. His life partner is not thrilled, but understands, his mother is thrilled to pieces, but his father is very quiet about it. I don't think the son gave his father enough credit to understand his lifestyle, after all, he was a general and must have delt with situations like that, anyway the father was very respectful to his life partner and understood, the mother however was still waxing rapsodic about her son seeing his child born would make him "straighten out" so to speak. Parents go back to China with most of what they came for, they got their wedding, grandchild in the works and their son happy with the person of his choice. Enjoy!
Summary of The Wedding Banquet
This 1993 international hit by Ang Lee is a funny and poignant story of a gay, Taiwanese-American man who goes to some lengths to fool his visiting family that he's actually straight. The results are far more complicated and entertaining than anyone could have guessed. The film seems all the more rich now since Lee has become a major Hollywood director: that same sensitivity and mild bemusement he brought to such stories of manners as Sense and Sensibility and The Ice Storm in recent years are in full bloom in this earlier work. --Tom KeoghTaiwan Video
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