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Bleecker Street has drop a new featurette from “The Wedding Banquet“.
This featurette shares highlights from Bowen Yang, director Andrew Ahn, Lily Gladstone, Joan Chen, Kelly Marie Tran, and Han Gi-Chan about the journey and their experiences of bringing “The Wedding Banquet” to life, this amazing comedy of errors, a very gay house that they just miiiiiiiiiighhhhttttt have to de-queer in an emergency, and a film all about… LOVE!
This film has so much absolutely incredible AAPI and LGBTQ+ representation. As Han Gi-Chan says in this featurette “It starts with love, it gets into trouble because of love, and it ends for love.” We are beyond honored to be sharing this featurette with you that highlights these amazing creatives! We’d love for you to share this brand new featurette with your audiences on sites and socials and get some excitement going about this wonderful story. If you do, please link us back to your coverage so we can share it with Andrew Ahn and the rest of the amazing “The Wedding Banquet” team!
From Director Andrew Ahn comes a joyful comedy of errors about a chosen family navigating the disasters and delights of family expectations, queerness, and cultural identity. 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.
When his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris 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 flies in from Korea unannounced, insisting on an all-out wedding extravaganza.
With a pitch-perfect cast of multigenerational talent that includes Bowen Yang, Academy Award nominee Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Han Gi-Chan, Joan Chen, and Academy Award winner Youn Yuh-Jung, this fresh reimagining of Ang Lee’s beloved, Award-winning rom-com teems with humour and heart in a poignant reminder that being part of a family means learning to both accept and forgive.