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First Trailer for ‘The Wedding Banquet’ Teases Gay Marriage Hijinks in Frothy Update of 1993 Original

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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.

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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