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Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone star in trailer for new comedy 'The Wedding Banquet'

The Wedding Banquet, directed by Andrew Ahn, is a contemporary reimagining of the 1993 film that explores modern queer relationships and family dynamics.
The story follows Chris and Min, a gay couple navigating commitment issues, as Min proposes to Angela to secure his stay in the U.S. While funding IVF for Angela's partner, Lee.
The film addresses themes of love, family, and the challenges faced by queer individuals, highlighting the importance of chosen families in a changing cultural landscape.
The Wedding Banquet is set to open in theaters on April 18, 2025, and has received a five out of five stars review for its humor and emotional depth.

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With Sundance Hit ‘The Wedding Banquet,’ Director Andrew Ahn Remakes One of the Movies that Made Him

Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone star in the Korean-American filmmaker’s reimagining of Ang Lee’s Oscar-nominated classic.

26 days ago·New York, United States

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Out Magazine

Sundance 2025: Andrew Ahn's 'The Wedding Banquet' is a career-best

Editor's note: This review contains spoilers for The Wedding Banquet (2025), which premiered at Sundance and is scheduled for a theatrical release later this year.No other movie at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival has moved me or made me laugh like Andrew Ahn's The Wedding Banquet.Ahn — whose work includes Spa Night and Fire Island — reaches new career heights by reimagining Ang Lee's classic 1993 film The Wedding Banquet.In this 2025 version, So…

26 days ago·Santa Fe, United States

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RollingStone

Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone Help Their Partners Pull Off a Ruse in ‘The Wedding Banquet’ Trailer

The first trailer for Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone’s remake of the 1993 queer comedy The Wedding Banquet is here and it doesn’t disappoint. Based on Ang Lee’s 1993 film, The Wedding Banquet stars Yang and Gladstone alongside Kelly Marie Tran and Han Gi-chan. The film shows the dynamics of two couples navigating their own sets of obstacles. Angela (Kelly Marie Tran) and Lee (Gladstone) are trying to have a baby through IVF but are struggling t…

26 days ago·Los Angeles, United States

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MyCentralOregon.com

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Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone star in trailer for new comedy 'The Wedding Banquet'

Arturo Holmes/Getty Images The teaser trailer for Bowen Yang and Kelly Marie Tran‘s chosen family comedy The Wedding Banquet is here. Based on the 1993 Ang Lee film of the same name, this updated remake stars Yang, Tran, Lily Gladstone and Han Gi-chan as two same-sex couples who navigate cultural identity, family expectations and their own queerness. The trailer sets up the premise: after commitment-phobe Chris (Yang) rejects his boyfriend Min’s…

26 days ago

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The A.V. Club

The Wedding Banquet puts a twist on a gay rom-com classic in first trailer

What are the ingredients for a modern Wedding Banquet? Try a mother (Joan Chen) who is actually perplexed by her daughter entering a heterosexual marriage; a lesbian couple who are struggling to fund their IVF treatments; and somebody in need of a green card. That last element was also part of Ang Lee's 1993 film, but the new Wedding Banquet (directed by Andrew Ahn) takes the movie's unconventional triangle and turns it into a loving, but still …

26 days ago

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IndieWire

‘The Wedding Banquet’ Review: Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone Star in a Blandly Charming Ang Lee Remake

In an era when gay marriage is legal, same-sex parenting is commonplace and the decision to build a nuclear family is, for many millennials, complicated not by cultural, sexual or familial impediments but rather ethical and financial ones, it might seem like an odd choice to remake Ang Lee’s 1993 “The Wedding Banquet.” But while watching Andrew Ahn’s amiable dramedy, which expands on the original premise while maintaining its central themes of f…

26 days ago·Los Angeles, United States

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