What's Cooking?

In LA's Fairfax district, where ethnic groups abound, four households celebrate Thanksgiving amidst family tensions. In the Nguyen family, the children's acculturation and immigrant parents' fears collide. In the Avila family, Isabel's son has invited her estranged husband to their family dinner. Audrey and Ron Williams want to keep their own family's ruptures secret from Ron's visiting mother. In the Seelig household, Herb and Ruth are unwilling to discuss openly their grown daughter's living with her lover, Carla. Around each table, things come to a head. A gun, an affair, a boyfriend, and a pregnancy precipitate crises forcing each family to find its center.What's Cooking? featuring Joan Chen and Julianna Margulies is free on Tubi, free on IMDb TV, available for rent or purchase on iTunes, and 4 others. It's a comedy and drama movie with an average Rotten Tomatoes (critics) score of 52% and a better than average IMDb audience rating of 6.9 (2,433 votes).