Asian Americans gays cook up work arounds for their “traditional” relatives who don’t understand their sexuality, going so far as to fake relationships and a marriage.

Ang Lee’s “The Wedding Banquet” rode the crest of a wave of what we’d come to call queer cinema when it played to enthusiastic reviews in art houses back in 1993, earning an Oscar nomination and a rich afterlife on home video and cable as well.

But for all its repressed emotions and dry humor, the picture has to play as more than a tad quaint thirty years later. So much has changed, even with reactionary efforts to turn back the clock on LGBTQIA visibilitiy and rights.

If anybody can make this fun, it’s “SNL” star Bowen Yang. Lily Gladstone also stars in a film from the director of “Spa Night” and “Driveway.”

The new take on this tale opens April 18.