The Wedding Banquet
A little deception at the reception.
Genres
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.
Details
Budget
$875000
Revenue
$23633459
Runtime
108 min
Release Date
1993-03-01
Status
Released
Original Language
Chinese
Vote Count
264
Vote Average
7.239
Gua Ah-leh
Mrs. Gao
Lung Sihung
Mr. Gao
May Chin
Wei-Wei
Winston Chao
Wai-Tung Gao
Mitchell Lichtenstein
Simon
Neal Huff
Steve
Michael Gaston
Justice of the Peace
Mason Lee
Baby
Dion Birney
Andrew
John Nathan
Joe
Jeanne Kuo Chang
Wai-Tung's Secretary
Paul Chen
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Chung-Wei Chou
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Yun Chung
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Ho-Mean Fu
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Jeffrey Howard
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Theresa Hou
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Hsu Yung-Teh
Bob Law, Wai-Tung's Old Friend
Jean Hu
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Albert Huang
Guest
Anthony Ingoglia
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Eddie Johns
Haskell
Thomas Koo
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Chih Kuan
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Robert Larenquent
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Neal Lee
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Dean Li
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Guest
Francis Pan
Guest
Neal Peng
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Tien Pien
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Tonia Rowe
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Hannah Sullivan
Mariane
Elizabeth Yang
Guest
Vanessa Yang
Mao Mei
Wei-Huang Ying
Guest
Yao Peide
Egg Head
Ang Lee
Guest at the Wedding Banquet (uncredited)
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