What's Cooking? (2000)
Directed by Gurinder Chadha
Genres - Drama, Romance, Comedy |
Sub-Genres - Americana, Domestic Comedy, Family Drama |
Release Date - Nov 3, 2000 (USA) |
Run Time - 110 min. |
Countries - United Kingdom, United States |
MPAA Rating - PG13
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Synopsis by Jonathan Crow
Kenyan-born, London-educated Indian filmmaker Gurinder Chadha follows up on her debut hit Bhaji on the Beach (1994) with this gentle look at multiculturalism in Los Angeles. The film details the lives of four ethnically diverse families -- black, Latino, Jewish, and Asian -- during one frantic Thanksgiving. The film opens with Ronald (Dennis Haysbert), an African-American who works as a spin doctor for the Republican politico; he and his wife Audrey (Alfre Woodard) are in the midst of preparing for their white dinner guests. Meanwhile, at the Latino household, young Anthony Avila (Douglas Spain) invites his womanizing father for Thanksgiving dinner, unbeknownst to his schoolteacher mother Elisabeth (Mercedes Ruehl). At the same time, the Seeling family is confronted with their daughter Rachel's (Kyra Sedwick) lesbianism, when she brings home her lover Carla (Julianna Margulies). Finally, Vietnamese immigrant Trinh Nguyen (Joan Chen) struggles to understand her Americanized children after she discovers condoms in her eldest daughter's jacket and a gun in her son's room.
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cultural-diversity, family-dynamics, Thanksgiving, race-relations, culture-clash, family-feud, African-American, Latino/Latina
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