What's Cooking?
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | What's Cooking? |
| Original title | What's Cooking? |
| Country of production | USA , UK |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | approx. 109 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gurinder Chadha |
| script | Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges |
| production | Jeffrey Taylor |
| music | Craig Pruess |
| camera | Jong Lin |
| cut | Janice Hampton |
| occupation | |
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What's Cooking? is a US-American - British film drama by Gurinder Chadha from the year 2000 .
action
The plot of the episode film takes place in the Fairfax neighborhood of Los Angeles , where the families Avila, Nguyen, Seelig and Williams celebrate Thanksgiving .
Ronald and Audrey Williams are visited by Ronald's mother, from whom they are hiding their problems.
The Jewish couple Ruth and Herb Seelig meet their lesbian daughter Rachel and her lover Carla, who live together. The Seeligs accept their daughter's orientation but are unable to explain it to other relatives.
Elizabeth Avila's son invited her husband, who was in separation, whom she met while eating. She is accompanied by her new partner.
The older Nguyens want to maintain the Vietnamese traditions - which is less important to their children. The parents worry about whether the daughter started a sex life and whether the son belongs to a gang.
Reviews
James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the director would like to follow in the footsteps of Robert Altman , which she cannot. "Ingredients" like melodrama and "stupid" turns of the plot are to blame for this. Experienced actors like Joan Chen, Alfre Woodard, Mercedes Ruehl and Dennis Haysbert would face inexperienced actors, giving an unbalanced result. However, the characters are well developed without stereotypes.
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on November 17, 2000 that all four storylines involved generation conflicts. Since the stories are “skilfully threaded”, they don't feel like an “exercise”.
Bob Graham wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle of November 17, 2000 that patient viewers would learn with film time that it was worth watching ("Patient viewers will find that by the time the sparks start to fly and the tears to flow, the wait will." have been worth it, to say nothing of the laughs ").
Awards
Alfre Woodard was nominated for the Black Reel Award in 2001. The film was nominated for the 2001 Casting Society of America Award . Gurinder Chadha won the London Critics Circle Film Award for British Director of the Year in 2002 .
background
The film was shot in Los Angeles . It had its world premiere on January 20, 2000 at the Sundance Film Festival . The film grossed approximately $ 1.04 million in US cinemas .
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- ^ Review by James Berardinelli, accessed July 24, 2007
- ^ Review by Roger Ebert, accessed on July 24, 2007
- ↑ Review by Bob Graham, accessed July 24, 2007
- ↑ Filming locations for What's Cooking ?, accessed July 24, 2007
- ↑ What's Cooking? Premiere dates, accessed July 24, 2007
- ↑ Box office / business for What's Cooking ?, accessed July 24, 2007
Web links
- What's Cooking? in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- What's Cooking? at Rotten Tomatoes (English)