Fake Weddings and the Critique of Marriage: The Wedding Banquet (1993), I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007), and the Marriage Equality Debate.

A film criticism is presented for the 1993 motion picture "The Wedding Banquet," directed by Ang Lee and starring Mitchell Lichtenstein, and the 2007 motion picture "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry," directed by Dennis Dugan and starring Adam Sandler. Topics discussed include the films' depictions of "fake weddings," or weddings of convenience, the relationship between the films and the debate over same-sex marriage, and the ways in which the films critique marriage.