The Wedding Banquet Movie - Official Featurette | Bleecker Street - Plot Synopsis: From Director Andrew Ahn comes a joyful comedy of errors about a chosen family navigating the disasters and delights of family expectations, queerness, and cultural identity. Angela and her partner Lee have been unlucky with their IVF treatments, but can’t afford to pay for another round. Meanwhile their friend Min, the closeted scion of a multinational corporate empire, has plenty of family money but a soon-to-expire student visa. When his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris rejects his proposal, Min makes the offer to Angela instead: a green card marriage in exchange for funding Lee’s IVF. But their plans to quietly elope are upended when Min’s skeptical grandmother flies in from Korea unannounced, insisting on an all-out wedding extravaganza. With a pitch-perfect cast of multigenerational talent that includes Bowen Yang, Academy Award nominee Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Han Gi-chan, Joan Chen, and Academy Award winner Youn Yuh-jung, this fresh reimagining of Ang Lee’s beloved, Award-winning rom-com teems with humour and heart in a poignant reminder that being part of a family means learning to both accept and forgive.
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00:00You look like a ghost.
00:02A hot, gay ghost.
00:05The Wedding Banquet is a comedy,
00:07and it is deceptively something with, like,
00:09really beautiful emotional stakes.
00:12The Wedding Banquet is about two couples who are friends.
00:16Hey, Chris. Good morning.
00:18Aah!
00:20Ang and Lee are trying to get pregnant,
00:22but they have no financial support for IVF.
00:26And then you have Chris and Min.
00:28Min's student visa is about to expire.
00:31He needs to stay in the U.S.
00:33but cannot come out to his very conservative,
00:35very wealthy family.
00:37You come out, they cut you off.
00:39I don't even want to be an American.
00:41The trains are so slow, and I never know how much to tip.
00:44Min ends up having this idea to stage a fake wedding.
00:48You marry me, and I'll pay for Lee's to grow a baby.
00:52Min's grandmother comes from Korea
00:54and kind of blows the whole thing up.
00:56Min's grandmother flew in from Korea
00:58to meet her future granddaughter-in-law.
01:00What are we supposed to do exactly?
01:01We gotta dequeer the house.
01:03God, you have so much lesbian literature.
01:05Their life just spiraled into chaos
01:08because of this web of lies.
01:10My own daughter marrying a man.
01:13I read it, and I remember thinking,
01:15oh, my God, I'm laughing, I'm crying.
01:17This story has big moments of release and laughter and joy
01:22that will resonate with an audience no matter what.
01:25Grandma will know that's lesbian.
01:26The indigo girls are surprisingly popular in Korea.
01:29You get to experience some nice, fun, refreshing farcical comedy.
01:33To love her.
01:34Yes, of course. I love Angela.
01:37It starts with love.
01:39It gets into trouble because of love.
01:41And it ends for love.
01:47Everything in this house is gay!