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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792860792
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792860799
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 15, 2004
Running Time: 108 minutes
Sales Rank: 10000
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: August 04, 1993
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Dig in! This funny and poignant comedy of manners (The New York Times) directed and co-written by Oscar® nominee* Ang Lee (Sense and Sensibility) is an absolutely delicious feast! Winner of the Berlin Film Festival s prestigious Golden Bear The Wedding Banquet is top-notch comedy (Leonard Maltin)!Successful New Yorker Wai Tung and his partner Simon are blissfully happy except for one thing: Wai Tung s conservative Taiwanese parents are determined he find a nice girl to marry! To please them and get a tax break he 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!System Requirements: Running Time 108 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 027616906915 Manufacturer No: M103195
Amazon.com essential video:
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 Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - about the DVDfilm/movie wedding banquet............
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...
Review by:
Dr, MR Franc MBBS (PhD) GPS Ang Poon Kah
Director lou Ye for film summer palace.
Rating:  - Gay, Green Card, Generation (Gap)
(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 ... Read More
Rating: - Wedding Banquet Fantastic
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 ... Read More
Rating: - quirky and well-directed.....
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Before Ang became a superstar director for Crouching Tiger
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 ... Read More
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