The Wedding Banquet, director Andrew Ahn’s (Fire Island) remake of the Oscar-nominated 1993 film from Ang Lee, just world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and on its heels the first teaser for the film has been released by Bleeker Street.
In the film, Angela (Kelly Marie Tran) and her partner Lee (Academy Award nominee Lily Gladstone) have been unlucky with their IVF treatments, but can’t afford to pay for another round. Meanwhile their friend Min (Han Gi-chan), the closeted scion of a multinational corporate empire, has plenty of family money but a soon-to-expire student visa. When his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris (Wicked‘s Bowen Yang) rejects his proposal, Min makes the offer to Angela instead: a green card marriage in exchange for funding Lee’s IVF. But their plans to quietly elope are upended when Min’s skeptical grandmother (Academy Award winner Youn Yuh-jung) flies in from Korea unannounced, insisting on an all-out wedding extravaganza. Also starring Joan Chen (Dìdi).
The Wedding Banquet is directed by Ahn and co-written by Ahn and James Schamus. It is produced by Anita Gou, Joe Piro, Caroline Clark, James Schamus. Bleeker Street will release the film only in theaters on April 18. Here is the teaser.
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