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What's Cooking? (2000)
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Reviews Counted: 65
Fresh: 34
Rotten:31
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Consensus: What's Cooking? is well-acted, but the scenes sometimes sink into melodrama as characters scream at each other, and the movie as a whole is too lightweight and forgettable.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] some sexuality, brief language and a perilous situation
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Nov 17, 2000 Limited
Box Office: $660,140
Synopsis:
Coming together is the theme of What's Cooking?, Gurinder Chadha's funny, mouth-watering and deeply moving vision of 21st century diversity and the future of the American family -- all set on...
Coming together is the theme of What's Cooking?, Gurinder Chadha's funny, mouth-watering and deeply moving vision of 21st century diversity and the future of the American family -- all set on Thanksgiving. Flowing from California kitchen to California kitchen on this day of reunions and homecomings, Chadha follows four seemingly disparate families as they confront differences and familiarity; laughter and festering anger; shiitake mushrooms and mashed potatoes; near-disaster and, ultimately, the astonishing power of love to connect them all.
What's Cooking? is a rapt celebration of families braided from a comic collision of cultures. What is the recipe for today's American family? With a smart, high-energy and boldly voyeuristic camera, Gurinder Chadha and an accomplished ensemble cast peer behind the front doors of ordinary Los Angeleno houses to reveal the sweet and savory mix. -- © 2000 Trimark Pictures
Starring: Joan Chen, Julianna Margulies, Mercedes Ruehl, Kyra Sedgwick
Starring: Joan Chen, Julianna Margulies, Mercedes Ruehl, Kyra Sedgwick, Alfre Woodard, Lainie Kazan
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Screenwriter: Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges
Producer: Jeffrey Taylor
Studio: Trimark Pictures
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Reviews for What's Cooking?
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.
A flavorless fable that is as hard to swallow as a piece of tough turkey.
A combination of fresh ingredients mixed together with skill to create a well-balanced harmony of diverse flavours. Delicious.
A multi-culti hodgepodge of sitcom stereotypes and old jokes centered on one, painfully weak premise.
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