What's Cooking?

2000

Comedy / Drama / Romance

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 52% · 66 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 65% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 3045 3K

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Plot summary

Four families of different ethnicities prepare for a potentially explosive Thanksgiving dinner.

Director

Gurinder Chadha Photo
Gurinder Chadha

Top cast

François Chau Photo
François Chau as Duc Nguyen
Lainie Kazan Photo
Lainie Kazan as Ruth Seelig
Estelle Harris Photo
Estelle Harris as Aunt Bea
Mercedes Ruehl Photo
Mercedes Ruehl as Elizabeth Avila
720p.WEB 1080p.WEB
1005.62 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 49 min
Seeds 25
1.82 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 49 min
Seeds 32

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by SinjinSB 7 / 10

The way people react to the holidays is pretty universal

Experience Thanksgiving with four different families (Jewish, Vietnamese, Hispanic, African American) in a Los Angeles neighborhood. It has a lot of the typical holiday family issues and few not so typical. I think basically it's showing that even though the cultures are very different, the way people react to the holidays is pretty universal. It has a nice blend of humor mixed with the stress of holiday and makes for enjoyable feast. As a side note, it has a reference to my alma mater, UCSB...which, to set the record straight, does not have a business school.*** (out of 4)
Reviewed by earx1 8 / 10

They got it right

Incredible how they got the issues around Asian-American right, and African-American right, and Jewish-American right. Very, very perceptive and well done! The Asian American issues with the girl and the mother are very well done and so true to life. Same with the problems with the African American father and his son--and his mother. the Latin-American wife-husband-boyfriend problem was exceptional. So many things about the Jewish American were absolutely true. and mixing up the gay-lesbian thing with the Jewish family was perfect. it was a bit unrealistic that even in l.a. all these people live within hearing distance of each other, and that was the only contrived element of the movie. Wasn't there some other way around that?
Reviewed by =G= 6 / 10

WARNING! Do not watch on an empty stomach.

"What's Cooking" is yet another film which shows a short period of time in the lives of multiple disconnected characters who have something in common. In "Magnolia" the common denominator was proximity. In "All the Rage" it was guns. In "The Five Senses" is was senses. Etc. Etc. Etc. In "What's Cooking" it's food....Thanksgiving Day dinner."What's Cooking" has superb casting, direction, script/screenplay, etc. However it has one huge problem which it shares with other films of this ilk: Too many characters and too little time with which to develop them sufficient to create that all important bond with the audience. The result is a herky-jerky story flow and a disconnected audience which is reduced to pure voyeurism. Too busy and too superficial.
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