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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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · May 20256/10
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 pressures from his family at home who want to bring him home to work in the family business and marry a nice girl. Meantime, best pal “Lee” (Lily Gladstone) and girlfriend “Angela” (Kelly Marie Tran) are trying to conceive via IVF but are having no luck. It would appear that the solution to both of their problems might lie in a marriage of convenience. Far-fetched? Well the best bit is yet to come as grandma (Youn Yuh-jung) arrives from Seoul determined to find out just what is going on and to protect her grandson from what she clearly suspects is some money-grabbers. It takes her about two minutes to suss things out so now the couples have to pray that she will go along with their scheme, else everything will come crashing down. There are a few funny scenes here, but for the m
Read the whole review on TMDB - Brent Marchanton TMDB · Apr 20258/10
“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, Lee and Angela (Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, respectively). In essence, Min, a South Korean national from a moneyed background whose US visa is about to expire, agrees to marry Angela so that he can qualify for a green card to stay stateside with Chris. In exchange, Min agrees to pay for the in vitro fertilization treatments that Lee is undergoing to enable her and Angela to have a child. It all sounds reasonable enough until Min’s stern grandmother (Youn Yuh-jung), the no-nonsense controller of the family purse strings, who’s thought to be unaware of her grandson’s sexual orientation, decides to visit Seattle to meet Min’s bride-to-be. But can the “couple” convince the aging matriarch that their upcoming betrothal is legitimate? Add to that additional complication
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Cast
- Bowen YangChris
- Lily GladstoneLee
- Kelly Marie TranAngela
- Han Gi-chanMin
- Joan ChenMay Chen
- Youn Yuh-jungJa-Young
- Bobo LeKendall
- Camille AtebeMonica
- Jeffrey LiangLady Shu Mai
- Emma YiLawyer Sun
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- Andrew AhnDirector
- James SchamusScreenplay
- Andrew AhnScreenplay
- Ki Jin KimDirector of Photography
- Jay WadleyOriginal Music Composer
- Geraud BrissonEditor
- Joe PirroProducer
- James SchamusProducer
- Anita GouProducer
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