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What's Cooking?
- Director: Gurinder Chadha
- Writer: Gurinder Chadha; Paul Mayeda Berges
- Producer: Paul Mayeda Berges; Gurinder Chadha
CGiii Comment
Thanksgiving again...the main problem with this film is: THIS IS NOT AMERICA - joyous harmony abounds, everyone loving everyone: Black, Hispanic, Jew, Asian, and dykes.
Massively irritating with cliché-riddled characters living in a world devoid of all reality.
It could also be viewed as evidence of the dissolution of non-American cultures into American culture.
It's stomach churning.
Extreme indigestion will be inflicted on all.
Good food never looked so BAD.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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.
Cast & Characters
Mercedes Ruehl as Elizabeth 'Lizzy' Avila;
Victor Rivers as Javier Avila;
Douglas Spain as Anthony 'Tony' Avila;
Maria Carmen as Sofia Avila;
Isidra Vega as Gina Avila;
Elena Lopez as Grandma Avila;
A Martinez as Daniel 'Danny';
Richard Yniguez as Robert Avila;
Lorraine Perez as Auntie Delores;
Eva Rodriguez as Auntie Eva;
Adrian Armas as Avila cousin;
Caz as Gordo, the Avila's dog;
Joan Chen as Trinh Nguyen;
Fran*ois Chau as Duc Nguyen;
Will Yun Lee as Jimmy Nguyen