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.

Starring:

A Martinez, Adrian Armas, Albie Selznick, Alfre Woodard, Andrew Heckler, Ann Weldon, Chad Todhunter, Chao Li Chi, Dennis Haysbert, Douglas Spain, Eric George, Estelle Harris, Eva Rodriguez, François Chau, Frank Novak, Gregory Itzin, Gwendolyn Oliver, Isidra Vega, Joan Chen, Julianna Margulies, Kieu Chinh, Kristy Wu, Kyra Sedgwick, Lainie Kazan, Mar

Genre:

Comedy, Drama