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  • 2000
  • PG-13
  • Cinemax
  • 1 h 49 m
  • 2000
  • PG-13
  • Cinemax
  • 1 h 49 m

Summary You are invited to a tasty Thanksgiving dinner that will all at once transport you to four different worlds and take you home again. Coming together is the theme of What's Cooking?, Gurinder Chadha's funny, mouthwatering and deeply moving vision of 21st century diversity and the future of the American family - all set on Thanksgiving. ...

Directed By: Gurinder Chadha

Written By: Paul Mayeda Berges, Gurinder Chadha

  • 2000
  • PG-13
  • Cinemax
  • 1 h 49 m
  • 2000
  • PG-13
  • Cinemax
  • 1 h 49 m

What's Cooking?

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Summary You are invited to a tasty Thanksgiving dinner that will all at once transport you to four different worlds and take you home again. Coming together is the theme of What's Cooking?, Gurinder Chadha's funny, mouthwatering and deeply moving vision of 21st century diversity and the future of the American family - all set on Thanksgiving. ...

Directed By: Gurinder Chadha

Written By: Paul Mayeda Berges, Gurinder Chadha

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 22 Critic Reviews
57
55% Positive
12 Reviews
36% Mixed
8 Reviews
9% Negative
2 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 22 Critic Reviews
57
55% Positive
12 Reviews
36% Mixed
8 Reviews
9% Negative
2 Reviews

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90
For so brisk and entertaining a film, sharp in its observations but light in its touch, Cooking has unexpected substance and is a formidable accomplishment in that it brings dimension to its nearly 40 principal characters.
By Kevin Thomas FULL REVIEW
75
A big-hearted celebration of the we're-all-in-this- together American way.
By Bob Graham FULL REVIEW
75
Her (Chadha) film tastily demonstrates that variety is the spice of not only American life, but of American cuisine.
By Carrie Rickey FULL REVIEW
63
More interesting as a sociological study than successful as a movie, What's Cooking? gets more involving as it strolls along.
By Staff [Not Credited] FULL REVIEW
58
If Chadha never quite overcomes her cliches, her good-natured humor and familial faith gives it a warm, winsome dimension.
By Sean Axmaker FULL REVIEW
42
Goes overboard in its presentation of supposed reality.
By Kim Morgan FULL REVIEW
30
Trades in sitcom stereotypes and crosscuts predictably from family to family as if under the misapprehension that equal time is a dramatic principle.
By Amy Taubin FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Because Entertainment, Flashpoint (I), Hope and Gravy Inc., Stagescreen Productions
Release Date Oct 27, 2000
Duration 1 h 49 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline Families. Fights. Feasts. A holiday tradition.
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Awards

London Critics Circle Film Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Casting Society of America, USA
• 1 Nomination
Humanitas Prize
• 1 Nomination

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