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The Wedding Banquet

starring: Winston Chao, May Chin, Dion Birney, Jeanne Kuo Chang, Paul Chen
directed by: Ang Lee

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792860792
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792860799
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 15, 2004
Running Time: 106 minutes
Sales Rank: 8485
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: August 04, 1993



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Dig in! This 'funny and poignant comedy of manners' (The New York Times), directed and co-written by Oscar(r) nominee* Ang Lee (Sense and Sensibility), is an absolutely delicious feast! Winner of the Berlin Film Festival's prestigious Golden Bear, The Wedding Banquet is 'top-notch comedy' (Leonard Maltin)! Successful New Yorker Wai Tung and his partner Simonare blissfully happy, except for one thing: Wai Tung's conservative Taiwanese parents are determined he find a nice girl to marry! To please themand get a tax breakhe arranges a sham marriage to Wei Wei, a sexy go-getter in need of a green card. But when his family swoops down for the extravaganza, Wai Tung would do well to remember that at a traditional Chinese wedding banquet, sexual repression takes the night off!

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This 1993 international hit by Ang Lee is a funny and poignant story of a gay, Taiwanese-American man who goes to some lengths to fool his visiting family that he's actually straight. The results are far more complicated and entertaining than anyone could have guessed. The film seems all the more rich now since Lee has become a major Hollywood director: that same sensitivity and mild bemusement he brought to such stories of manners as Sense and Sensibility and The Ice Storm in recent years are in full bloom in this earlier work. --Tom Keogh



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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - about the DVDfilm/movie wedding banquet............
This story is basically about how a falke wedding marriage successfully held from one stage to another ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Gay, Green Card, Generation (Gap)
(This one is for Steve Hedge.)
This film is directed by a clever Taiwanese director, Ang Lee, who ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Wedding Banquet Fantastic
This movie was fantastic. You get to see how culture affects the way two men in love live their lives. ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - quirky and well-directed.....
I must say that it was quite intriguing to watch this film, directed by Ang Lee, after watching another one ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Before Ang became a superstar director for Crouching Tiger
and opened the door for a flood of mostly fantastic Asian movies, he made this disfunctional/functional family ... Read More

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