Ang Lee’s 1993 queer classic, “The Wedding Banquet,” gets a modern update from director Andrew Ahn and stars Bowen Yang, Lily ...

Andrew Ahn’s thoroughly enjoyable dramedy based on Ang Lee’s 1993 original tests the relationships of two LGBT couples through a sham marriage ploy.

Don’t call it a remake, it’s a reimagining. In the case of Andrew Ahn’s take on Ang Lee’s 1993 romantic comedy “The Wedding Banquet,” that couldn’t be more true. For the “Driveways” filmmaker’s latest ...

Back in 1993, filmmaker Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) delivered the first The Wedding Banquet, groundbreaking in its exploration of sexuality and Asian-American identity. It follows a bi Taiwanese ...

But this particular Wedding Banquet 2.0 is about journey more than destination; between the core cast of six, this really is an ensemble piece, and the comedy springs, almost sitcom-like ...

Writer/director Ahn co-wrote the 2025 take on “The Wedding Banquet” with original co-screenwriter James Schamus, who co-wrote the 1993 film with Lee. The official synopsis for the feature ...

By David Rooney Chief Film Critic What the second iteration of The Wedding Banquet does specifically for this precarious moment is not just add fresh fizz to the romance and comedy but also ...

It caps off “The Wedding Banquet” perfectly, landing a greater punch just when the film needed it most, ensuring after all the many humorous blows it landed to your gut, it lands one more to ...

Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone help plan a sham wedding in the first trailer for “The Wedding Banquet,” a modern retelling of Ang Lee’s 1993 queer comedy of errors. Set in Seattle ...

PARK CITY, UTAH Jan. 30 (UPI) --The Wedding Banquet, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival, is a funny and sweet update of the Ang Lee original. Lee's co-writer James Schamus wrote the new ...

When Ang Lee's "The Wedding Banquet" was released back in 1993, the HIV/AIDS epidemic was still taking lives, marriage equality in the U.S. was decades away, and queer representation in media ...

We should see what it’s all about,’” Ahn recalled Monday night as he introduced his reimagining of Lee’s film — also called “The Wedding Banquet” — at its Sundance Film Festival ...