What's Cooking?
by Gurinder Chadha
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Actor: Douglas Spain, Joan Chen, Julianna Margulies, Mercedes Ruehl, Victor RiversDirector: Gurinder Chadha
Brand: Lions Gate
Writer: Gurinder Chadha
Producer: Abe Glazer
Producer: Beau Rogers
Producer: David Forrest
Producer: David Grace
Producer: Ethan Hurt
Writer: Paul Mayeda Berges
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); Vietnamese (Original Language); Yiddish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-06-03
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of What's Cooking?
Movie Review: What's Cooking? is an amazingly touching holiday movie, very unique
Summary: 5 Stars
The Thanksgiving film 'What's Cooking' uses its stacked yet unique cast to introduce the film's moral plot line and the heart-warming stories of four families living in LA. Throughout the film, the four families stories' interact with one another without knowing as they are complete strangers to the each other, despite the fact that they are all neighbors on a single street corner in an LA neighborhood. Each family is of a different descent and religion, helping the film to show the diversity of the families and how these differences are made even more apparent by the holidays. Each family in the movie shows a different kind of struggle, each that seem to be exasperated by the holidays. The struggles of the families are extremely relatable for the audience which provides the film with depth. As the movie continues, the stories of the families become more and more entangled, until the conclusion of the movie where the struggle of one of the families unintentionally involves all four families to come together and the struggles of each family to seem unimportant. 'What's Cooking?' allows a great look into different races and ethnicities, as well as a deep moral understanding of family and what is really important in your life. This film should be a classic holiday movie that everyone in the United States should see and appreciate.
Summary of What's Cooking?
WHAT'S COOKING - SIGNATURE SERIES - DVD MovieAt first glance, What's Cooking? looks like it was dreamed up by some politically correct screenwriting committee: a series of overlapping stories that intercut among four families (one Hispanic, one Vietnamese, one African American, one Jewish) all preparing for Thanksgiving dinner. But what could be toothless and smarmy is made gripping and genuinely affecting by a mixture of observant writing, fluid direction, and a truly superb ensemble of actors, including Mercedes Ruehl, Alfre Woodard, Joan Chen, Julianna Margulies, Kyra Sedgewick, Dennis Haysbert, and a host of less well known but just as capable others. The script is a marvel of orchestration: small annoyances blossom into fierce conflicts, secrets are deftly revealed, and sanctimoniousness is subtly punctured. The acute but sympathetic portrait of family stress and tension is layered with quiet observations about race and class, as well as the capacity for tolerance and forgiveness. It's recently become a cliché to have characters express themselves through food (examples include Soul Food, Big Night, and Eat Drink Man Woman), but What's Cooking? turns food into a witty exploration of culture as everyone prepares their turkeys in entertainingly different ways--this is not a movie to watch on an empty stomach. Warm without false sentiment, What's Cooking? is deeply enjoyable. --Bret Fetzer
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