The Wedding Banquet

Gao Wai, a gay New Yorker, has never shared the truth about his sexuality with his traditional Taiwanese family, and hopes to disguise his long-term relationship with his lover Simon by marrying Wei-Wei, a young artist who's only it for the green card. But Gao's parents refuse to let him off the hook easily, showing up in New York to plan a massive wedding banquet.



This was an early Ang Lee film dealing with homosexuality and how it affects the family, in this case, a traditional Taiwanese family. It is well done and sensitive because the film explored interracial and cross cultural relationship and it let's us see the other side of the issue from a new (Chinese) perspective.

Wonderful portrait of what seems like a good idea at the time which spins wildly out of control and changes everyone involved, ultimately for the better even if its not immediately apparent at the time. Beautiful ending!