What's Cooking?

– In LA's Fairfax district, where ethnic groups abound, four households celebrate Thanksgiving amidst ..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.10 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 49 Minutes
Release Year:
2000
What's Cooking? (2000)

In LA's Fairfax district, where ethnic groups abound, four households celebrate Thanksgiving amidst family tensions. In the Nguyen family, the children's acculturation and immigrant parents' fears collide. In the Avila family, Isabel's son has invited her estranged husband to their family dinner. Audrey and Ron Williams want to keep their own family's ruptures secret from Ron's visiting mother. In the Seelig household, Herb and Ruth are unwilling to discuss openly their grown daughter's living with her lover, Carla. Around each table, things come to a head. A gun, an affair, a boyfriend, and a pregnancy precipitate crises forcing each family to find its center.

What's Cooking? (2000) - Trailer

Release Date:

01 Dec 2000

Language:

English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Yiddish

MPAA Content-Rating:
PG-13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned

Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. Parents are urged to be cautious. Some material may be inappropriate for pre-teenagers.

Director:

Gurinder Chadha

Writer:

Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges

Main Actors:

Mercedes Ruehl, Victor Rivers, Douglas Spain, Maria Carmen

Plot:

In LA's Fairfax district, where ethnic groups abound, four households celebrate Thanksgiving amidst family tensions. In the Nguyen family, the children's acculturation and immigrant parents' fears collide. In the Avila family, Isabel's son has invited her estranged husband to their family dinner. Audrey and Ron Williams want to keep their own family's ruptures secret from Ron's visiting mother. In the Seelig household, Herb and Ruth are unwilling to discuss openly their grown daughter's living with her lover, Carla. Around each table, things come to a head. A gun, an affair, a boyfriend, and a pregnancy precipitate crises forcing each family to find its center.

Awards:

1 win & 3 nominations.

Gross profit:

$660,140

Production:

Trimark Pictures

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
52%
Metacritic:
57%