Long before his big-budget spectacles, Ang Lee came to the attention of international audiences with this charmingly humorous and humanist study of tolerance. In The Wedding Banquet, Lee focuses on the plight of Wai-Tung, a successful Taiwanese businessman who lives a relatively uncomplicated life in New York City with his gay partner. As a result of his mother’s scheming and the couple’s desire to obscure their relationship, the closeted young man decides to marry a young woman from Shanghai in need of a Green Card. With the announcement of the impending nuptials, Wai-Tung’s parents catch the first plane to the Big Apple, and a hilarious farce of cultural clashes ensues.