Directed by Ang Lee • 1993 • Taiwan, United States
Starring Gua Ah-leh, Sihung Lung, May Chin

In Ang Lee’s bittersweet culture-clash comedy, Wai-Tung (Winston Chao), a gay Taiwanese man, has a seemingly perfect life living in New York City with his American boyfriend (Mitchell Lichtenstein). There’s just one issue: his traditional parents (Gua Ah-leh and Sihung Lung) back in Taiwan, who don’t know their son is gay and who make no secret of their desire to see him married. In order to placate them, Wai-Tung agrees to a marriage of convenience with Wei-Wei (May Chin), a young immigrant in desperate need of a green card. The complications mount when Wai-Tung’s parents unexpectedly arrive in New York to celebrate the union—with everything coming to a head over the course of an extravagant Chinese wedding banquet.