Audiences won’t have to wait too long to see Lily Gladstone (“Killers of The Flower Moon”) on the big screen as she’s part of a new romantic comedy “The Wedding Banquet” which is heading to theaters next month and we can share a trailer for the pic helmed and co-written by Andrew Ahn.
Gladstone co-stars alongside Bowen Yang (“Wicked”), Kelly Marie Tran (“Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi,” “Raya & The Last Dragon”), Han Gi-Chan (“Our Song”), Joan Chen (“Dìdi”), and Oscar-winning actress Youn Yuh-jung (“Minari,” “Pachinko”) as we see a group of friends that attempt to solve growing adulthood problems such as staying in the country to avoid deportation and getting pregnant using IVF as complications arise. A mutually beneficial deal is hatched which leads to an extravagant wedding.
The film’s synopsis provided to us by Bleecker Street reads:
A chosen family of four friends each struggling to navigate their adulthood responsibilities and relationships. Angela (Tran) and her partner Lee (Gladstone) have had repeated unsuccessful IVF treatments, and the financial strain is worsening. Min (Han) and his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris (Yang) can’t agree on taking their relationship to the next level, but Min’s student visa is running out. In an attempt to solve the friend group’s ever-growing problems, Min proposes marriage to Angela to secure his green card in exchange for funding Lee’s IVF treatment. When Min’s skeptical grandmother makes a surprise visit and insists on an extravagant wedding, the friends’ commitment to their scheme – and to one another – begins to waiver.
You can watch the aforementioned trailer below and “The Wedding Banquet” will be hitting theaters nationwide on April 18.