在这部谁在煮食剧情/喜剧片中,感恩节到底对人们意味着什么？欢聚、宴会，重温亲情的可贵？几个不同的家庭，几段不同的经历，几代人的代沟、隔膜，它们在感恩节中会如何发展？影片中几个家庭都是被生活的忙碌所累，为生活而奔波，但在难得的感恩节中，是该停下来，关心一下身边的人了。
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.
