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The Wedding Banquet(1993)
Status: Released
Date: 1993-03-01
72%
275 Votes
Time: 1h 48m
A little deception at the reception.
Overview:
A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding.
Languages: Mandarin, English.
Countries:
Taiwan,
United States of America
Budget: $875,000.00
Revenue: $23,633,459.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Ang Lee Productions
Movie: The Wedding Banquet
Top 10 Billed Cast
趙文瑄
Gao Wai-Tung
歸亞蕾
Mrs. Gao
郎雄
Mr. Gao
May Chin
Gu Wei-Wei
Mitchell Lichtenstein
Simon
郭昌
Wai-Tung's Secretary
Michael Gaston
Justice of the Peace
Neal Huff
Steve
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Video: The Wedding Banquet (1993) Trailer | Ang Lee
The Wedding Banquet (1993) Trailer | Ang Lee
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The Wedding Banquet (喜宴) [Oscar's Best Foreign Movie]
The Wedding Banquet Official Trailer #1 - Winston Chao Movie (1993) HD
The Wedding Banquet (1993 Ang Lee) - Blind Date from Taipei
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The Wedding Banquet (1993) Trailer | Ang Lee - Trailer
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The Wedding Banquet (喜宴) [Oscar's Best Foreign Movie] - Trailer
The Wedding Banquet Official Trailer #1 - Winston Chao Movie (1993) HD - Trailer
The Wedding Banquet (1993 Ang Lee) - Blind Date from Taipei - Clip
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