A combination of fresh ingredients mixed together with skill to create a well-balanced harmony of diverse flavours. Delicious.
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08/20/01
What's Cooking? (2000)
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Reviews Counted:65
Fresh:34
Rotten:31
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: What's Cooking? is well-acted, but the scenes sometimes sink into melodrama as characters scream at each other, and the movie as a whole is too lightweight and forgettable.
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Coming together is the theme of What's Cooking?, Gurinder Chadha's funny, mouth-watering and deeply moving vision of 21st century diversity and the future of the American family -- all set on... [More]
Starring: Joan Chen, Julianna Margulies, Mercedes Ruehl, Kyra Sedgwick
Director: Gurinder Chadha
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Top CriticA multi-culti hodgepodge of sitcom stereotypes and old jokes centered on one, painfully weak premise.
04/16/01
Each story climaxes in inevitable clashes and shrill shouting matches.
01/01/00
Chadha juggles her characters so deftly that we never get tired of any of them and eagerly look forward to returning to each table as her camera jumps around.
01/01/00
An infectious film that successfully juxtaposes four seemingly different families during the most joyous and stressful time of the year.
01/01/00
The kind of obvious theatrics employed by Chadha do a great disservice to both her characters and her audience.
01/01/00
It would take up too much space here to go through the huge cast trying to single out actors who deserve praise for the expressive details that bring such truth to the picture.
01/01/00
Many of the ingredients in this movie melting-pot quickly become so sweet as to spoil the soup.
01/01/00
Chadha celebrates the cultural and racial diversity of Los Angeles. . . . Don’t miss this wonderful film!
01/01/00
Like the meal itself, the movie's both filling and familiar.
01/01/00
A glorified TV movie.
01/01/00
The brouhahas are more undercooked than the birds.
01/01/00
May be the first film in history where the food has infinitely more personality than the people.
01/01/00
The louder and more melodramatic the arguments get, the more overwrought the acting becomes.
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