--- title: 'The Wedding Banquet (1993)' type: 'film' director: 'Ang Lee' released: '1993-02-01' runtime_minutes: 103 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Romance' countries: - 'Taiwan' - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-wedding-banquet-1993' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107156/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Wedding Banquet (1993) 1993 · 103 min · Drama, Romance · Taiwan, United States Part of: Father Knows Best trilogy ## Synopsis The Wedding Banquet is a 1993 romantic comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Ang Lee. The story concerns a gay Taiwanese immigrant man who marries a mainland Chinese woman to placate his parents and get her a green card. His plan backfires when his parents arrive in the United States to plan his wedding banquet and he has to hide the truth of his gay partner. It was a co-production of Lee's Good Machine production company, and the Taiwanese Central Motion Picture Corporation. ## Credits - **Director:** [Ang Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/ang-lee) - **Screenplay:** [Ang Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/ang-lee), [James Schamus](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-schamus), [Neil Peng](https://cinepixo.com/people/neil-peng) - **Producer:** [Ang Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/ang-lee), [James Schamus](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-schamus), [Ted Hope](https://cinepixo.com/people/ted-hope) - **Director of Photography:** [Lin Jong](https://cinepixo.com/people/lin-jong) - **Editor:** [Tim Squyres](https://cinepixo.com/people/tim-squyres) ## Cast - [Mitchell Lichtenstein](https://cinepixo.com/people/mitchell-lichtenstein) - [Michael Gaston](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-gaston) - [Ang Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/ang-lee) - [Mason Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/mason-lee) - [Winston Chao](https://cinepixo.com/people/winston-chao) - [Kao Chin Su-mei](https://cinepixo.com/people/kao-chin-su-mei) - [Sihung Lung](https://cinepixo.com/people/sihung-lung) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-wedding-banquet-1993 Film facts: Wikidata (Q182071); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.