A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding.
Direction
Lee balances farce and ache like nobody else.
Acting
Gua Ah-leh's mother—devastating in a single glance.
Writing
The banquet scene: comedy escalating into emotional autopsy.
Director
Ang Lee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ang Lee's father, a former Taiwan education director, initially refused to speak to him for months after learning the film was about gay characters. The reconciliation inspired the film's emotional core.
Shot in Lee's own Queens apartment on a $750,000 budget, the film became the most profitable movie of 1993 relative to cost—proof that specificity, not spectacle, wins wallets.
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