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After reaching adulthood, a family Thanksgiving celebration became problematic as I don’t judge turkey (or the ham alternative) a festive dish. I’m not hard pressed to reflect of a better plan to use my time – such as going out for a burger and a movie. WHAT’S COOKING only reinforces my curmudgeonly attitude, but also left me with a smile.
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This film has a cast of thousands. Let’s objective say that it involves four American families of varied background – Jewish, Dusky, Vietnamese, Mexican Latino – gathering for the Turkey Day ritual. Each has a festering dysfunction.
Ruth and Herb Seelig (Lainie Kazan and Maury Chaykin) welcome their daughter Rachel (Kyra Sedgwick) home for the holiday. Rachel brings her lesbian lover Carla (Julianna Margulies), remarkable to Mom and Dad’s discomfiture. Additional relatives, not yet clued in, are scheduled to plunge by.
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Trin and Duc Nguyen (Joan Chen and François Chau) have fair had #2 son ejected from school. If that isn’t enough, Trin has found a condom among #1 daughter’s possessions. And #1 son isn’t bothering to encourage the gala affair at all, but is secretly going to the home of his Latino girlfriend, the Avilas.
Mrs. Elizabeth Avila (Mercedes Ruehl) is separated from her husband Javier (Victor Rivers) since he had a tempestuous affair with her cousin. Unbeknownst to Elizabeth, son Tony (Douglas Spain) has invited Papa over for the holiday meal as he has nowhere else to go. Unbeknownst to Tony, Mom has her fill bombshell to fall. And, of course, the Avila daughter, Sofia (Maria Carmen), has invited her non-Latino boyfriend.
In the meantime, Audrey Williams (Alfre Woodard) must both cook and beget nice with her overly necessary mother-in-law, Grace (Ann Weldon), while the former’s husband, Ronald (Dennis Haysbert), referees. The region of the couple’s marriage is tense, and their teenage son, Michael (Eric George), isn’t expected to appear for unstated reasons, which perhaps is fair as well as Ronald’s approval rating of his boy is at an all-time coarse.
As the state evolves, the determined conflict in each of these households is revealed as only the tip of the iceberg.
Each of these culturally different families prepares its possess accepted side dishes to accompany the de rigueur bird. Mighty veil time is dedicated to food preparation, and it’s a joy to peer. My wife and I had a difficult time deciding which meal we’d want to shatter. We ultimately decided on the Nguyen feast despite a essential culinary malfunction. KFC anyone?
Director Gurinder Chadha, and Indian woman born in Africa who grew up in London and married a Japanese-American, deftly escalates the tension in each group such that the dysfunction at each Thanksgiving table spirals out of control at the same rate, culminating in an unexpected bridge between the cultures.
WHAT’S COOKING is clever and enormously curious, as long as it doesn’t happen to you. The fact that such or similar situations are likely commonplace in America’s melting pot makes the film all the more reflective of a shared humanity. Kudos to Ms. Chadha for a thoroughly provocative movie equal to, if not better than, MY Tremendous Corpulent GREEK WEDDING.
For a movie I never heard of(being in the theaters), this was a surprisingly decent movie. The movie basically follows four families (a Hispanic family, Vietnamese family, African-American family and a Jewish family) as they prepare Thanksgiving dinner. Overall, it is a nice family movie despite the determined dysfunction in each family (which is shapely realistic I swear) .
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Among the “issues” addressed in this movie: lesbian relationships, marital infidelity, the generation gap between parents and children, single parent homes, and gun violence.
The ending of the movie surprisingly ties everything together into a nice bow but you calm feel at the waste of the movie like, “What a wacky world we live in.”
Overall, the movie itself is a nice behold, gracious of an afternoon rental viewing. It’s definitely not a destroy of money.
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Among the special DVD features in this film are interviews and commentaries from cast and crew members on a WIDE VARIETY OF TOPICS. The interviews are so-so. They’re not worth the note of admission, but it’s an “okay” bonus. The special feature in the DVD fraction I really liked were the recipes for some of the savory dishes served up in some of the families’ Thanksgiving dinners. That’s a colossal DVD bonus.
Here’s my rundown:
Great: The recipes in the DVD special features
Good: The overall movie itself (storyline, acting, etc) .
Okay: The DVD bonus interviews, commentaries, etc
Bad: The pure dysfunction…but it’s unfortunately all too upright in our society…
Overall, a nice concern for the cast and crew and the DVD makers.
Recommended.
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