Besides the title, this movie only shares 3 themes with the 1993 Oscar-nominated movie: a gay man enters into a green card marriage of convenience, parents (in this case grandmother) flies in from Asia, and someone gets pregnant. Bowen Yang gets top billing, but he is not the central character. He plays Chris, a gay Asian-American in a 5-year relationship with Min. Min is the sole heir of a Korean conglomerate, and is on his 7th year of a student visa, though he spends his time on his fabric collage art. After turning down his grandmother's offer of a corporate job in the U. S., Min needs to find a way to stay. Min's grandmother knows that he is gay, but is hoping that he will grow out of it. Min's grandfather, however, is sufficiently anti-gay that Min is likely to be disowned if he found out. Chris and Min live in the garage of Lee and Angela. Lee inherited the Seattle-area house from her father, while Angela deals with her Taiwan-heritage mother (played by Joan Chen), who is overcompensating for earlier abandonment, by being overly supportive. Lee wants to experience pregnancy and have a child, but has just failed in her 2nd attempt at in-vitro fertilization, and is leery of trying for an expensive and final 3rd attempt. Desperate to stay in the U. S., Min proposes marriage to Chris, who turns him down due to his likelihood of being disowned. Min then proposes to Angela, offering money for Lee's IVF in return. When he tells his grandmother of the pending nuptials, she flies into town, giving them very short notice to "de-gay" the house. But grandma sees thru the scheme, and comes up with her own to satisfy grandpa - a full-blown traditional Korean wedding, with lots of photos. It is a decent story and well played. However, I am not keen on the borrowed title, the headlining of a secondary character (though Bowen Yang has a brief nude scene), or the logic of their living in the garage. Min has access to a reasonable amount of money, and could have rented their own house or apartment. Even if they wanted to live with their chosen family, there is a guest house (separate building on the property) that could have given the two couples more privacy.

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