Sundance 2025: The Wedding Banquet Q & A with Andrew Ahn, Kelly Marie Tran, Bowen Yang

Sundance 2025: Youn Yuh-jung, Han Gi-chan, Joan Chen, Andrew Ahn, Kelly Marie Tran, Bowen Yang, and Bobo Le attend the "The Wedding Banquet" Premiere during the 2025 Sundance Film Festival at Eccles Center Theatre attend the "The Wedding Banquet" Premiere during the 2025 Sundance Film Festival at Eccles Center Theatre on January 27

Hitting theaters on April 18, the cast includes Bowen YangLily GladstoneKelly Marie TranHan Gi-chanBobo LeJoan Chen, and Academy Award winner Youn Yuh-jung

Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend, Chris, and out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green card marriage with his friend Angela in exchange for expensive in vitro fertilization treatments for her partner, Lee. Plans change when Min’s grandmother surprises them with an elaborate Korean wedding banquet. Andrew Ahn returns to Sundance (Spa Night, 2016 Sundance Film Festival) with an exuberant romantic comedy that pays tribute to the unexpected ways friendship and community form modern family.

Ahn collaborates with James Schamus, co-writer of Ang Lee’s beloved 1993 classic The Wedding Banquet, to create a contemporary reimagining that playfully complicates the original film’s conflict and comedy, updating a romantic triangle into a codependent queer quad of young lovers.

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