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What's Cooking?

  • 2000
  • PG-13
  • 1h 49min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,8/10
3041
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Julianna Margulies, Joan Chen, Mercedes Ruehl, Kyra Sedgwick, and Alfre Woodard in What's Cooking? (2000)
Four families in LA of different ethnicity (Latino, Asian/Vietnamese, African and Jewish) gather together for Thanksgiving dinner.
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaFour families in LA of different ethnicity (Latino, Asian/Vietnamese, African and Jewish) gather together for Thanksgiving dinner.Four families in LA of different ethnicity (Latino, Asian/Vietnamese, African and Jewish) gather together for Thanksgiving dinner.Four families in LA of different ethnicity (Latino, Asian/Vietnamese, African and Jewish) gather together for Thanksgiving dinner.

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    • Gurinder Chadha
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Gurinder Chadha
    • Paul Mayeda Berges
  • Star
    • Joan Chen
    • Julianna Margulies
    • Mercedes Ruehl
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,8/10
    3041
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Gurinder Chadha
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Gurinder Chadha
      • Paul Mayeda Berges
    • Star
      • Joan Chen
      • Julianna Margulies
      • Mercedes Ruehl
    • 57Recensioni degli utenti
    • 31Recensioni della critica
    • 57Metascore
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    Joan Chen
    Joan Chen
    • Trinh Nguyen
    Julianna Margulies
    Julianna Margulies
    • Carla
    Mercedes Ruehl
    Mercedes Ruehl
    • Elizabeth Avila
    Victor Rivers
    Victor Rivers
    • Javier Avila
    Douglas Spain
    Douglas Spain
    • Anthony Avila
    Maria Carmen
    Maria Carmen
    • Sofia Avila
    Isidra Vega
    Isidra Vega
    • Gina Avila
    Elena Lopez
    • Grandma Avila
    A Martinez
    A Martinez
    • Daniel
    Richard Yniguez
    Richard Yniguez
    • Robert Avila
    Lorraine Perez
    • Auntie Delores
    Eva Rodriguez
    • Auntie Eva
    Adrian Armas
    Adrian Armas
    • Avila Cousin
    Caz
    • Gordo
    François Chau
    François Chau
    • Duc Nguyen
    • (as Francois Chau)
    Will Yun Lee
    Will Yun Lee
    • Jimmy Nguyen
    Kristy Wu
    Kristy Wu
    • Jenny Nguyen
    Brennan Louie
    • Joey Nguyen
    • Regia
      • Gurinder Chadha
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Gurinder Chadha
      • Paul Mayeda Berges
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    6=G=

    WARNING! Do not watch on an empty stomach.

    "What's Cooking" is yet another film which shows a short period of time in the lives of multiple disconnected characters who have something in common. In "Magnolia" the common denominator was proximity. In "All the Rage" it was guns. In "The Five Senses" is was senses. Etc. Etc. Etc. In "What's Cooking" it's food....Thanksgiving Day dinner.

    "What's Cooking" has superb casting, direction, script/screenplay, etc. However it has one huge problem which it shares with other films of this ilk: Too many characters and too little time with which to develop them sufficient to create that all important bond with the audience. The result is a herky-jerky story flow and a disconnected audience which is reduced to pure voyeurism. Too busy and too superficial.
    molly-45649

    Wonderful and heartwarming!

    Really wonderful movie about families and communities from different cultures and backgrounds gathering for Thanksgiving dinner. I thought that each of their stories were very interesting and showed how much each family could be dysfunctional in their own way. Would definitely recommend!
    7SinjinSB

    The way people react to the holidays is pretty universal

    Experience Thanksgiving with four different families (Jewish, Vietnamese, Hispanic, African American) in a Los Angeles neighborhood. It has a lot of the typical holiday family issues and few not so typical. I think basically it's showing that even though the cultures are very different, the way people react to the holidays is pretty universal. It has a nice blend of humor mixed with the stress of holiday and makes for enjoyable feast. As a side note, it has a reference to my alma mater, UCSB...which, to set the record straight, does not have a business school.

    *** (out of 4)
    Shiva-11

    You'll be craving seconds.

    Holidays are a time for families to come together. More often than not, these little "reunions" manage to bring out the worst in people and unpleasant episodes from the past get dredged up and brutally dissected for the thousandth time. Or your parents may take turns pushing your buttons (which of course they programmed in the first place) and endlessly aggravating you with a never-ending barrage of life questions. "When are you getting married?" "When are we getting grandchildren?" "What do you intend to do with your life?" Small wonder that the suicide rate increases exponentially around these times of joy.

    Rather than limit herself to one family's deluge of dysfunctional dialogue at Thanksgiving, writer/director Gurminder Chadha, zooms in on a multi-family multicultural view of the holiday. We are introduced to the Jewish family with the lesbian daughter and her lover, the Hispanic family with the philandering husband and newly liberated wife, the cross-generational Vietnamese family's struggle with old traditions vs. new realities, and the successful yet fractured African American family. Happy holidays!

    Unlike "The Big Night" where food is intended to inspire pure sensory decadence, or "Like Water for Chocolate" in which it takes on a mystical, magical quality, Chadha's uses food to illuminate the contrasts between the families in the piece. While turkey is served as the main course at every dinner table, it is prepared, cooked and presented very differently by each family. The roasted polenta, fajitas, spring rolls and homemade macaroni and cheese that supplant the side dishes typically associated with Thanksgiving - corn, cranberry sauce and mashed potatoes - further enhance the feeling (and reminded me that I had missed dinner). But movies do not live by food alone.

    What sets this film apart from its contemporaries is not its parallel, intertwining plots, or the setting, but its execution. Any of the plots could easily provide enough fodder for a full-length movie, which makes their skillful amalgamation in 106 minutes that much more impressive. This is more remarkable when one takes into account that no one in the voluminous (there are dozens of speaking parts) and talented ensemble cast is there as window dressing - every character is solid and has a clearly defined purpose. Rarer still is the fact that the lion's share of screen time is devoted to the development of strong female characters, which might explain what drew Mercedes Ruehl, Julianna Marguelies and Joan Chen to the project. My praise has not yet ended.

    The dialogue is realistic and well written, and the situations, though sometimes tongue-in-cheek, familiar and believable. The pacing is quick, slowing down to take a breather only when the audience needs it, but never leaves the viewer behind. The editing is tight and clean, rarely allowing any one scene to run too long. Finally, the cinematographer deserves congratulations for the exceptionally sumptuous food shots, I swear I could smell the turkey. In movies, as in life however, nothing is perfect.

    The movie does lapse into stereotypes in several instances, for example, could anyone be as truly annoying and clueless as the character of Aunt Bea (played to wonderful excess by Estelle Harris)? I hope not. The film also goes to the sentimentality well a little too often and the ending, while clever, is contrived. While noticeable, these flaws are merely mildly distracting, and do not overwhelm the film.

    As the saying goes, I laughed, I cried, I cringed, it was an experience. * Make reservations to catch this delectable dish as soon as it's served up at your local theater.

    *I didn't actually cry, I just got a little something in my eye.
    9steve.schonberger

    a delicious comedy

    This movie is a comedy about the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. It follows four families (black, Latino, Jewish, and Vietnamese) during their holiday celebrations, with all the messes that crop up during big family gatherings. Each of the families has its own problems, which are to some extent intertwined.

    An example of one of the family messes: A young man in the Latino family bumps into his father (who had moved out some time earlier) at the grocery store, and invites him to Thanksgiving dinner. His mother is furious, because she doesn't want anything to do with her estranged husband, particularly during a big holiday event.

    The acting and directing are very good, but the writing and editing are really wonderful. The cast is huge, but the editing manages to make it easy for the audience to keep track of everyone. It's full of laughs (and some light drama), but aside from some stereotyping, mostly realistic. Even though there are quite a number of name actors, the screen time is divided among the cast to fit the story, not to fit the actors' egos -- an impressive balancing act for the director and producers.

    The food scenes, aside from a few kitchen disasters, were enough to inspire quite an appetite. It's a good thing the Seattle International Film Festival scheduled the screening in the afternoon, so I could have dinner right after the movie.

    This is one of the best recent comedies I've seen.

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    • Data di uscita
      • 1 dicembre 2000 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paesi di origine
      • Regno Unito
      • Stati Uniti
    • Lingue
      • Inglese
      • Spagnolo
      • Vietnamita
      • Yiddish
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      • Los Angeles, California, Stati Uniti
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      • 1.045.899 USD
    • Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
      • 144.586 USD
      • 19 nov 2000
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