Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Ah-Lei Gua | ... | Mrs. Gao (as Ah-Leh Gua) | |
Sihung Lung | ... | Mr. Gao | |
May Chin | ... | Wei-Wei | |
Winston Chao | ... | Wai-Tung Gao | |
Mitchell Lichtenstein | ... | Simon | |
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Dion Birney | ... | Andrew |
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Jeanne Kuo Chang | ... | Wai-Tung's Secretary |
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Paul Chen | ... | Guest |
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Chung-Wei Chou | ... | Chef |
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Yun Chung | ... | Guest |
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Ho-Mean Fu | ... | Guest |
Michael Gaston | ... | Justice of the Peace | |
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Jeffrey Howard | ... | Street Musician |
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Theresa Hou | ... | Female Cashier |
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Yung-Teh Hsu | ... | Bob Law, Wai-Tung's Old Friend |
Simon and Wei-Tung are a gay couple living together in Manhattan. To defer the suspicions of Wei-Tung's parents, Simon suggests a marriage of convenience between Wei-Tung and Wei-Wei, an immigrant in need of a green card. When Wei-Tung's parents come to America for the wedding, they insist upon an elaborate banquet, resulting in several complications. Written by Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu>
The Wedding Banquet is marketed as a comedy, but it is more than that. Closer in plot and style to Green Card than The Birdcage it examines the personal consequences of deceit. The comedy is there of course, but so is much tenderness and pain as a marriage of convenience between a gay man and a woman deportee unravels. Like Green Card which had similar plotlines, the "obvious" resolutions do not appear so likely as the film progresses which adds to its attractiveness.
I recommend it highly.