What's Cooking?
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.
PG-13
HD
Drama, Comedy
2000
109 min
Prime VideoStreaming Channels
Movie Info:
- Full Name : What's Cooking?
- Duration : 109 min
- Languages : English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Yiddish
- Writers : Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges
- Directors : Gurinder Chadha min
- Imdb : 7.1 (2232 votes)
- Tomatoes : 3.4 (1495 votes)
- Actors : Mercedes Ruehl, Victor Rivers, Douglas Spain, Maria Carmen
Movie Storyline
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.