| Title: | What's Cooking? | |
| Director 1: | Gurinder Chadha | |
| Country: | USA | |
| Year: | 2000 | |
| length: | 109 mins | |
| Colour/b-w: | colour | |
| Genre: | feature film | |
| Screenwriter: | Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges | |
| Cinematographer: | Jong Lin | |
| Editor: | Janice Hampton | |
| Producer: | Gurinder Chadha, David Forrest, Abe Glazer and others | |
| Production company: | Because Entertainment/Flashpoint/Stagescreen | |
| Cast: | Joan Chen, Julianna Marguiles, Mercedes Ruehl, Kyra Sedgwick | |
| Location: | Not available | |
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| Synopsis: | Writer-director Gurinder Chadha zooms in on a multi-family multicultural view of the American holiday. The episodic film introduces a Jewish family a the lesbian daughter and her lover, a Hispanic family with a philandering husband and newly liberated wife, a cross-generational Vietnamese family's struggle with old traditions vs. new realities, and a successful yet fractured African American family. Chadha uses food to illuminate the contrasts between the families. While turkey is served as the main course at every dinner table, it is prepared, cooked and presented differently by each family. No viewing copy available. | |
| Keyword 1: | cultural identity | |
| Keyword 2: | USA | |
| Keyword 3: | gender | |
| Keyword 4: | women | |
| Keyword 5: | masculinity | |
| Keyword 6: | black | |
| Keyword 7: | Asian | |
| Keyword 8: | Hispanic | |
| Keyword 9: | Jewish | |
| Keyword 10: | dysfunctional family | |
| Keyword 11: | family | |
| Keyword 12: | food | |
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