What's Cooking?
What's Cooking? is a 2000 comedy-drama film directed by Gurinder Chadha and starring Mercedes Ruehl, Kyra Sedgwick, Joan Chen, Lainie Kazan, Maury Chaykin, Julianna Margulies, Alfre Woodard, and Dennis Haysbert.
Plot
On Thanksgiving day, four ethnically diverse families -- Vietnamese, Latino, Jewish, and African American — gather for the traditional meal. Each family has its own distinct way of cooking the traditional holiday meal and its own set of problems.
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| author | Gurinder Chadha |
|---|---|
| director | Gurinder Chadha |
| editor | Janice Hampton |
| genre | comedy-drama |
| keywords | african american american jews bad behavior break cook emotional breakdown fight grocery store hear hide hispanic and latino americans jewish latino older brother pick up racist remark retirement home second chance second wife sperm donor talk than the thanksgiving video cassette video store vietnamese |
| musicBy | Craig Pruess |
| producer | Ethan Hurt Jeffrey Taylor |
| productionCompany | BeCause Entertainment Group |
| publisher | Lionsgate Films Lionsgate UK Trimark Pictures |
| theme | independent lgbt-related |