dramedy

“The Wedding Banquet” was a romantic dramedy about family and love, and how difficult it can be to reconcile a breach between those two things when they are fundamentally linked.

Gay marriage was illegal when Ang Lee released 1993’s “The Wedding Banquet,” a New York-set romantic dramedy about a queer Taiwanese man, his white male partner and the female Chinese immigrant he marries to placate his conservative parents.

I haven’t been back to Sacramento since — only in the movies, like “Lady Bird” and 2016’s all-too-familiar “Other People,” Chris Kelly’s excellent and criminally underrated dramedy about losing a parent to cancer.

She credits her role in “The Bold Type,” the workplace dramedy that centered on three young women pursuing career success and romance, with launching the rest of her life.

But there’s also a 1990s throwback feel to this quirky dramedy featuring a large ensemble cast.