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What's Cooking?
Directed by
Gurinder Chadha
PG-13
2000
1h 50m
Drama
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Comedy
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6.8
52%
65%
5.5
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Four families in LA of different ethnicity (Latino, Asian/Vietnamese, African and Jewish) gather together for Thanksgiving dinner.
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Cast of What's Cooking?
Julianna Margulies
Carla
Mercedes Ruehl
Elizabeth Avila
Kyra Sedgwick
Rachel Seelig
Alfre Woodard
Audrey Williams
Maury Chaykin
Herb 'Herbie' Seelig
Estelle Harris
Aunt Bea
Dennis Haysbert
Ronald Williams
Lainie Kazan
Ruth 'Ruthie' Seelig
Joan Chen
Trinh Nguyen
François Chau
Duc Nguyen
Kieu Chinh
Grandma Nguyen
Victor Rivers
Javier Avila
Douglas Spain
Anthony 'Tony' Avila
Suzanne Carney
Sarah Seelig
Eric George
Michael Williams
Gregory Itzin
James Moore
Will Yun Lee
Jimmy Nguyen
Ralph Manza
Uncle David
A Martinez
Daniel 'Danny'
Shareen Mitchell
Paula Moore
What's Cooking? Ratings & Reviews
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
A bit melodramatic at times, but still charming.
Variety
Emanuel Levy
This valentine to the cultural diversity that defines L.A. is a second-tier Altman (or even Paul Thomas Anderson)a broad, accessible comedy that contrasts four large and dynamic families residing on the same street: Latino, black, Jewish, and Asian.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
The writers observe each family with a knowing eye and a miraculously even hand that lends the jokes the ring of truth.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
It's a meal you may feel you've eaten before, but you nonetheless walk away stuffed and happy.
Village Voice
Amy Taubin
Trades in sitcom stereotypes and crosscuts predictably from family to family as if under the misapprehension that equal time is a dramatic principle.
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
A glorified TV movie.
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
This film is lighthearted and smart enough to be one of the best Altmanesque ensemble comedies of the last couple of years.
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
For a canvas this broad, the portraiture is exceptionally fine.
CNN.com
Paul Tatara
Chadha tries to keep so many balls in the air at once, she can't generate any steam in the individual stories.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Because the stories are so skillfully threaded together, the movie doesn't feel like an exercise: Each of the stories stands on its own.
Dallas Morning News
Gary Dowell
The louder and more melodramatic the arguments get, the more overwrought the acting becomes.
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
The brouhahas are more undercooked than the birds.
Seattle Times
Mark Rahner
Contrived, cliched and condescending.
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
Patient viewers will find that by the time the sparks start to fly and the tears to flow, the wait will have been worth it, to say nothing of the laughs.
Entertainment Weekly
Ty Burr
Like the meal itself, the movie's both filling and familiar.
Film.com
Ernest Hardy
The film collapses under the weight of stereotypes and a hackneyed concept.
Detroit News
Susan Stark
It wears both its heart and its politics too obviously on its sleeve for comfort.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
The film's gluttonous overkill of food is matched only by its overacting.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Like too many Thanksgiving dinners, too much squabbling really wreaks havoc on the digestion. Football, anyone?
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Has unexpected substance and is a formidable accomplishment in that it brings dimension to its nearly 40 principal characters.
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