What's Cooking?

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• Genre(s): Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Gurinder Chadha
• Cast(s): Joan Chen, Julianna Margulies, Mercedes Ruehl, Kyra Sedgwick, Alfre Woodard See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 1h 50min
• Music: Craig Pruess
• Award(s): ALFS 2002 (Won)
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• Similar To: My Oxford Year, Pillion
• Story:
  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.
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