What's Cooking?

"What's Cooking" is one of the most non-dogmatic feminist movies I've seen (as compared to say "24 Hour Woman") as exemplified by a climactic scene of one mother stuffing her face with two pieces of homemade pie amidst crisis while... Full review

With the exception of A WALK ON THE MOON starring Diane Lane and Viggo Mortensen, this film is easily my favorite indie film. I first saw it four years ago when my sister was home from San Diego state for... Full review

You'll be disappointed if you expect to find much insight or genuine human emotion in this ultra-thin movie, which is really four stories artificially connected. What you'll get is a parade of stereotypical diversity images -- your basic gay (lesbian)... Full review

"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... Full review

Funny, charming, sad, and completely entertaining throughout.... a very talented ensemble cast...some surprises in the story. This is, I think, a holiday classic. I look forward to seeing it again and again.... Full review

We've had AMERICAN PIE, AMERICAN BEAUTY, and AMERICAN PSYCHO. This is AMERICAN STEW.The film is entertaining as it mixes drama and comedy into an interesting recipe. To use other metaphors, the film is the American tossed salad or mixing bowl.... Full review

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.... Full review

With Girlfight, this tops my best of 2000 list. Not that I have seen them all, and not that there's much competition. This was such a dreadful year in Hollywood I'm swearing off Oscar day. But this IS an amazing... Full review

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... Full review

Ruehl is particularly good, even when the script calls for histrionics Besides, having almost all of the families tied together in one form or another is a ridiculous plot contrivance, and it only helps muddle an already convoluted script - one that needed a lot more humor to balance out the melodrama. ... Full Review

But because the stories are so skillfully threaded together, the movie doesn't feel like an exercise: Each of the stories stands on its own. The Latino Thanksgiving starts uneasily when the kids are at the supermarket and run into their dad ( Victor Rivers ), who is separated from their mom ( Mercedes Ruehl ). ... Full Review

Chadha and co-writer Paul Mayeda Berges accomplish this by an inspired structure coupled with some of the smartest dialogue heard in an American film this year. Every element of the film gleams, but its script is exceptional, its wit bubbling with seeming spontaneity from what is actually a rock-solid foundation. ... Full Review

an old-fashioned, feel-good movie.... ... Full Review

In the films best written scene, she finally convinces her husband she doesnt want him. This is particularly true in the storyline involving the Nguyen family, which turns into a combination of an afterschool special and a public service announcement about gun safety. ... Full Review

Mar 12, 2003 | Oh, those slap-happy foreign cultures and their problems assimilating into modern contemporary society! Movies about culture clashes, particularly conflicts involving love and marriage, are perennial favorites, and it's not hard to see why: Aside from the... ... Full Article

U.S. Distributor: Lions Gate Films What's Cooking? , a product of the increasingly less prestigious Sundance Institute Writer's Lab, is the latest motion picture to explore the rather obvious links between cooking and life. ... Full Article

Its Thanksgiving in LA and four families one African-American, one Vietnamese, one Jewish and one Latin-American settle down at their dinner tables. But in this quartet of households, relationships among adults and between the various generations are strained, resulting in... ... Full Article

A valentine to the cultural diversity that defines Los Angeles as a new kind of city, Gurinder Chadha's "What's Cooking?" is a broad, highly accessible comedy that juxtaposes four dynamic families -- black, Latino, Jewish and Asian -- residing on... ... Full Article

WHAT'S COOKING?Rated:NR For movie details, please click here . American diversity is celebrated for once-instead of being ignored or merely hinted at-in Gurinder Chadha's What's Cooking?. ... Full Article

There are 10,000 characters in this movie, PLUS their extended families, so the viewer inevitably ends up mentally referring to them by the stars' names, or how they are related to the stars (Joan is connipting; Alfre's husband is angry... ... Full Article