"This is absurd! All so you can get a green card." Bleecker Street has revealed the full official trailer for the ensemble comedy
The Wedding Banquet, a brand new modern day remake of the
1993 Ang Lee movie of the same anme. This time the story features four people living together in one house: two gay men and two lesbian women in relationships. Korean Min makes a deal with his lesbian friend: a green-card marriage for him, in exchange for costly IVF treatments for her. But their plans to quietly elope are upended when Min's skeptical grandmother flies in right from Korea unannounced, insisting on an all-out wedding extravaganza. With a pitch-perfect cast of talent that includes
Bowen Yang,
Lily Gladstone,
Kelly Marie Tran,
Han Gi-chan,
Bobo Le,
Joan Chen, and Academy Award winner
Youn Yuh-jung, this fresh reimagining of Ang Lee’s beloved, rom-com teems with humor & heart in a poignant reminder that being part of a family means learning to both accept & forgive. This premiered at the 2025 Sundance Festival in January earlier this year. I watched it there and instantly fell in love with it - this deserves to be a massive hit when it lands in theaters. In
my glowing review that "I laughed, I cried, I smile, I cheered, I wiped away tears." A must see. //
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