The Wedding Banquet

OUTwatch screening: April 18, 7pm

Plays For One Week

Coming Soon Seb

Wedding Banquet is a joyful comedy of errors about a chosen family navigating cultural identity and family expectations. It’s a remake of the original 1993 film with a new lesbian emphasis.

“The Wedding Banquet” centers two couples: Chris & Min and Angela & Lee. Angela and her partner Lee have been unlucky with their IVF treatments, but can’t afford to pay for another round. Meanwhile their friend Min, the closeted scion of a multinational corporate empire, has plenty of family money but a soon-to-expire student visa. Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris (Bowen Yang)  and running out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela in exchange for her partner Lee’s expensive IVF. Elopement plans are upended, however, when Min’s grandmother flies in from Korea unannounced and surprises them with an extravagant wedding banquet.

“What makes the film work is the underlying validity of thestory, the way the filmmakers don’t simply go for melodrama and laughs, but paythese characters their due.”     RogerEbert.com