Director:
Gurinder Chadha (2000)
Starring:
Mercedes Ruehl, Victor Rivers, Douglas Spain, Joan Chen, Will Yun Lee...
Summary
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.
