The Wedding Banquet

Name: The Wedding Banquet
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Duration: 1 h 46 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Winston Chao, Michael Gaston, Neal Huff, Ang Lee

1993

6.6

Title: The Wedding Banquet

Original Title: Xi yan

Year: 1993

Info

Country: Taiwan USA
Language: Mandarin English
Length: 106 Minutes (1 hour 46 min)
Budget: $1,000,000
Genre: Comedy Drama Romance
Studios: Central Motion Pictures
Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)

Release Dates

UK: September 23 1993
United States: August 04 1993

Plot

New Yorker Wai Tung and his partner Simonare blissfully happy, except for one thing: Wai Tung's conservative Taiwanese parents are determined he find a nice girl to marry. To please themand get a tax breakhe arranges a sham marriage to Wei Wei, a sexy go-getter in need of a green card. But when his family swoops down for the extravaganza, Wai Tung would do well to remember that at a traditional Chinese wedding banquet, sexual repression takes the night off.