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The Wedding Banquet

2025 • 1h 43m •
Comedy Romance Drama
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★ 6.6/10
68 reviews
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The Wedding Banquet

Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris and running out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela in exchange for her partner Lee's expensive IVF. Elopement plans are upended, however, when Min's grandmother surprises them with an extravagant Korean wedding banquet.

Top Billed Cast

Bowen Yang
Bowen Yang
Chris
Lily Gladstone
Lily Gladstone
Lee
Kelly Marie Tran
Kelly Marie Tran
Angela
Han Gi-chan
Han Gi-chan
Min
Joan Chen
Joan Chen
May Chen
Youn Yuh-jung
Youn Yuh-jung
Ja-Young
Bobo Le
Bobo Le
Kendall
Camille Atebe
Camille Atebe
Monica

Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews

B Brent Marchant Verified TMDB Critic
2025-04-20

“To thine own self be true” is more than just an oft-used platitude. It’s also good advice, given that concocting and pulling off a scheme rooted in artifice is virtually assured to fail. Such is the case when a long-term gay male couple, Chris and Min (Bowen Yang, Han Gi-Chan, respectively), hatches what they believe to be an ingenious plan for carrying out a marriage of convenience involving their lesbian friends, Lee and Angela (Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, respectively). In essence, Min, a South Korean national from a moneyed background whose US visa is about to expire, agrees t...

C CinemaSerf Verified TMDB Critic
2025-05-25

Remember the “Proposal” (2009)? Well this is a sort of derivative of that only here it is two gay couples who decide that a bit of judicious legerdemain might enable one to get a green card and another to fund some fertility treatment. You see, commitment-phobe “Chris” (Bowen Wang) has been with his wealthy Korean boyfriend “Min” (Han Gi-Chan) for years but won’t marry him. This irks his partner who also has pressures from his family at home who want to bring him home to work in the family business and marry a nice girl. Meantime, best pal “Lee” (Lily Gladstone) and girlfrien...