1 Movie Starring Maria Carmen

What's Cooking?

What's Cooking?

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-12-01

Languages:

English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Yiddish

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

109 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (2232 Reviews)

Director:

Gurinder Chadha

Genres:

DramaComedy

Cast:

Writer:

Gurinder Chadha

Paul Mayeda Berges

Fullplot:

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.

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