The Wedding Banquet is a 2025 American romantic comedy film directed by Andrew Ahn and co-written by James Schamus.It is a remake of the 1993 film.It stars Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Han Gi-chan, Joan Chen, and Youn Yuh-jung.. The Wedding Banquet premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, followed by a theatrical release in the United States on April 18, 2025.

Gao Wai-Tung is a bisexual Taiwanese immigrant happily living in Manhattan with his gay Jewish partner Simon. He has not come out to his traditionally-minded parents who live back in Taiwan and, as he's in his late-20s, they've become eager to see him get married and have a child in order to continue the family line.

4 hours ago · ScreenRant interviewed the cast and director of The Wedding Banquet while at Sundance Film Festival, where they celebrated the world premiere of the Ang Lee remake.While Ahn and Han praised Bowen Yang's vulnerability and comedic timing in turn, Tran gushed over the opportunity to work with Gladstone. The elder statemen of cinema, Youn and Chen, also shared how their very different personal ...

2 days ago · The Wedding Banquet makes quite a few changes to the original film to better reflect its contemporary setting and it’s all the better for it. There aren’t too many remakes that are willing to take risks, but Ahn puts his heart and soul into the film and his and Schamus' script balances multiple stories at once with ease. The characters and ...

12 hours ago · “The Wedding Banquet” centers two couples: Chris & Min (Han Gi-chan) and Angela (Kelly Marie Tran) & Lee (Lily Gladstone). In a sort of “Strangers on a Train” twist of fate, the couples end up needing something from each other when Lee’s second attempt at IVF doesn’t take. Min comes from a very wealthy family and can give Lee ...

The Wedding Banquet: Directed by Ang Lee. With Ah-Lei Gua, Sihung Lung, May Chin, Winston Chao. To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand.

2 days ago · When Ang Lee’s “The Wedding Banquet” was released back in 1993, the AIDS epidemic was still taking lives, marriage equality in the U.S. was decades away and queer representation in media ...

2 days ago · When Ang Lee’s “The Wedding Banquet” was released back in 1993, the HIV/AIDS epidemic was still taking lives, marriage equality in the U.S. was decades away, and queer representation in ...

3 days ago · Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran and Ha Gi-Chan star in Andrew Ahn's 'The Wedding Banquet,' an update of the 1993 queer comedy of manners.

4 days ago · But this particular Wedding Banquet 2.0 is about journey more than destination; between the core cast of six, this really is an ensemble piece, and the comedy springs, almost sitcom-like, from the ...