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The Wedding Banquet

1993 · 108 min

A warm, witty, and tender comedy of errors that balances cultural expectations with personal truth, leaving a bittersweet aftertaste.

Tagline: A little deception at the reception.
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.

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
identity
love
deception
parenthood
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	6
Realism	8
Romance	5
Tension	5
Darkness	3
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: comedy, drama, romance
Directed by: Ang Lee
Written by: Neil Peng, James Schamus, Ang Lee
Starring: Gua Ah-leh, Lung Sihung, May Chin, Winston Chao Wen-hsuan, Mitchell Lichtenstein, Vanessa Yang, Dion Birney, Jeanne Kuo Chang
Music: Mader
Cinematography: Jong Lin
Runtime: 108 min
Country: Taiwan, United States of America
Languages: English, Mandarin

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