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Distributor:
Roadshow Home Entertainment
Certificate: M |
Region 4 PAL |
Available to buy
Extras:
No
ANYONE
IN IT WE KNOW?
Winston Chao, May Chin, Mitchell Lichtenstein, Sihung Lung, Ah-Leh Gua
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WHAT’S
IT ABOUT THEN?
Ang Lee's breakthrough movie, made in 1993 and playing like a standard rom-com The Wedding Banquet is actually a hugely
percetive flick about cultural differences and the expactations placed on us by our parents. Wai-Tung (Winston Chao) is happily
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living in New York with his partner, his parents are expecting him to soon get married and give them grandchildren, the only
problem is that Wai is gay and hasn't told his parents. He thinks he has found an answer to his problems when he agrees to marry
Wei Wei (May Chin) a woman who lives in the same apartment block and is in danger of being deported. All is good until Wei's
parents arrive from China with plans for a huge wedding banquet.
It's easy to see why The Wedding Banquet seemed like a breath of fresh air on its original release, Lee manages to find something
interesting to say about a story
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that lets face it has been seen before and also manages to avoid falling into sterotypical images
of Chinese American life. The dialogue is crisp and funny and the cast seem to be enjoying themselves - May Chinn was a huge
star in her native Taiwan at the time and despite being something of a fish out of water still carries through her role well. It's also
Winston Chao' debut movie although you wouldn't know it.
Very entertaining and well worth seeking out.
ANY
SPECIAL FEATURES?
No
extras.
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