What's Cooking?

What's Cooking?

110 mins | Drama, Comedy | Jan. 20, 2000

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.

What's Cooking?

110 mins | Drama, Comedy | Jan. 20, 2000

What's Cooking?
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.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers Lions Gate Films
Original title What's Cooking?
Directors Gurinder Chadha
Writers Paul Mayeda Berges, Gurinder Chadha

Cast

Joan Chen

as Trinh Nguyen

Mercedes Ruehl

as Elizabeth 'Lizzy' Avila

Kyra Sedgwick

as Rachel Seelig

Alfre Woodard

as Audrey Williams

Maury Chaykin

as Herb 'Herbie' Seelig

Estelle Harris

as Aunt Bea

Dennis Haysbert

as Ronald Williams

Lainie Kazan

as Ruth 'Ruthie' Seelig

Victor Rivers

as Javier Avila

Douglas Spain

as Anthony 'Tony' Avila

A Martinez

as Daniel 'Danny'

Ralph Manza

as Uncle David

François Chau

as Duc Nguyen

Maria Carmen

as Sofia Avila

Isidra Vega

as Gina Avila

Will Yun Lee

as Jimmy Nguyen

Kiều Chinh

as Grandma Nguyen

Eric George

as Michael Williams

Ann Weldon

as Grace Williams

Brittany Jean Henry

as Kristen Williams

Elena Lopez

as Grandma Avila

Kristy Wu

as Jenny Nguyen

Brennan Louie

as Joey Nguyen

Jimmy Pham

as Gary Nguyen

Chi Chaoli

as Grandpa Nguyen

Andrew Heckler

as Jerry

Chad Todhunter

as Luke

Marty

as Max

Shareen Mitchell

as Paula Moore

Gregory Itzin

as James Moore

Mariam Parris

as Monica Moore

Frank Novak

as Governor Rhodes

Scotty Nguyen

as Don