The Wedding Banquet
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Movie Reviews of The Wedding Banquet
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Summary: 5 Stars
"You are cordially invited to a wedding where everybody wants to kiss the bride . . . except the groom." "A little deception at the reception." These quotes are on a postcard for the movie. One of the now great Ang Lee's early movies. An absolutely wonderful film about two gay men in New York - lots of laughs. One marries an immigrant to placate his parents and to get the bride a green card. I loved it!Movie Review: Finally!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am so glad that they made the DVD format for this film. It is a great film, it is one of the first gay films that I saw and it still the best gay film that I have ever seen. It is must have if you collect filmsMovie Review: A Fantastic Film About Family
Summary: 5 Stars
This film proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that a family can take many forms. The cast is brilliant, the storyline is phenomenal. You'll laugh and you'll cry, and it will stick with you for a long time.Movie Review: The mirror of every gay in the closet...excelent movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
Funny,Dramatic,a nice love story, a perfect coming out gift for Gay's parents. An aproach to the Chinese Family Traditions in the modern world.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!