The Wedding Banquet
Mar 01 1993
•2h 49m
•Comedy, Drama, Romance
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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Gua Ah-leh
Mrs. Gao
Lung Sihung
Mr. Gao
May Chin
Wei-Wei
Winston Chao
Wai-Tung Gao
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