

The Wedding Banquet
Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris and running out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela in exchange for her partner Lee's expensive IVF. Elopement plans are upended, however, when Min's grandmother surprises them with an extravagant Korean wedding banquet.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $5M
- Box office
- $2.1M
- Language
- English
- new york city
- romcom
- marriage of convenience
- remake
- male homosexuality
- gay marriage
- green card
- lgbt
- gay theme
- lesbian
- ivf treatment
- korean culture
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereSundance Film Festival27 Jan 2025
- PremiereSonoma International Film Festival23 Mar 2025
- PremiereMinneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival5 Apr 2025
- PremiereWisconsin Film Festival9 Apr 2025
- PremiereMiami Film Festival12 Apr 2025
- TheatricalR18 Apr 2025
- Digital / OTTR13 May 2025
United KingdomGB
- PremiereBFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 19 Mar 2025
- Theatrical159 May 2025
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM8 May 2025
- PremiereMDarwin Pride Film Festival6 Jun 2025
- Digital / OTTM9 Jul 2025
CanadaCA
- Theatrical18 Apr 2025
GermanyDE
- Theatrical125 Jun 2025
IrelandIE
- Theatrical15A9 May 2025
ItalyIT
- Theatrical4 Aug 2025
MacaoMO
- PremiereCMacao International Queer Film Festival2 Jun 2025
MaltaMT
- PremiereMediterrane Film Festival23 Jun 2025
PhilippinesPH
- PremiereR-16QCinema RainbowQC Pride Film Festival25 Jun 2025
- Digital / OTTHBO Max31 Oct 2025
Puerto RicoPR
- Theatrical (limited)RFine Arts15 May 2025
RomaniaRO
- Digital / OTT15Rakuten TV / TVOD18 Dec 2025
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The Wedding Banquet was released on 18 April 2025.
Audience reviews
2- B8/10
Brent Marchant
4/20/2025
“To thine own self be true” is more than just an oft-used platitude. It’s also good advice, given that concocting and pulling off a scheme rooted in artifice is virtually assured to fail. Such is the case when a long-term gay male couple, Chris and Min (Bowen Yang, Han Gi-Chan, respectively), hatches what they believe to be an ingenious plan for carrying out a marriage of convenience involving their lesbian friends, …
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
5/25/2025
Remember the “Proposal” (2009)? Well this is a sort of derivative of that only here it is two gay couples who decide that a bit of judicious legerdemain might enable one to get a green card and another to fund some fertility treatment. You see, commitment-phobe “Chris” (Bowen Wang) has been with his wealthy Korean boyfriend “Min” (Han Gi-Chan) for years but won’t marry him. This irks his partner who also has pressure…
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