The Wedding Banquet | Featurette: Comedy - video Dailymotion

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Min offers to fund Angela's IVF through a green card marriage but his Korean grandmother arrives unexpectedly, demanding a lavish wedding extravaganza

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00:00You look like a ghost.

00:02A hot, gay ghost.

00:05The Wedding Banquet is a comedy,

00:07and it is deceptively something with, like,

00:09really beautiful emotional stakes.

00:12The Wedding Banquet is about two couples who are friends.

00:16Morning, Chris. Morning!

00:20Ange and Lee are trying to get pregnant,

00:22but they have no financial support for IVF.

00:26And then you have Chris and Min.

00:28Min's student visa is about to expire.

00:31He needs to stay in the U.S.

00:33We cannot come out to his very conservative,

00:35very wealthy family.

00:37You come out, they cut you off.

00:39I don't even want to be an American!

00:41The trains are so slow and I never know how much to tip.

00:43Min ends up having this idea to stage a fake wedding.

00:47You marry me, and I'll pay for these to grow a baby.

00:51Min's grandmother comes from Korea

00:53and kind of blows the whole thing up.

00:55Min's grandmother flew in from Korea

00:57to meet her future granddaughter-in-law.

00:59What are we supposed to do exactly?

01:00We gotta dequeer the house!

01:02God, you have so much lesbian literature.

01:04Their life just spiraled into chaos

01:07because of this web of lies.

01:09My own daughter marrying a man.

01:12I read it, and I remember thinking,

01:14oh, my God, I'm laughing, I'm crying.

01:16This story has big moments of release and laughter and joy

01:21that will resonate with an audience no matter what.

01:24I don't think Min's grandma will know that's lesbian.

01:26The indigo girls are surprisingly popular in Korea.

01:28Huh.

01:29You get to experience some nice, fun, refreshing, farcical comedy.

01:33To love her.

01:34Yes, of course!

01:35I love Angela!

01:37It starts with love, it gets into trouble because of love,

01:41and it ends for love.

01:43What can I say?

01:44What can I say?

01:45What can I say?

01:46Everything in this house is GAY!

01:49My moon in this house is YAY!

The Wedding Banquet | Featurette: Comedy

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