Family dinners, family rows. The two go together, it seems, in Hollywoodland at least. Four American families are preparing the Thanksgiving feast: one African-American, one Vietnamese, one Jewish and one Hispanic. The children are reluctant to discuss their interracial and single-gender romances; there's mother-in-law trouble; two husbands have been unfaithful; and the Vietnamese son hides a gun - which, with other traumas, lead to all four families having blazing fights across the table. Just like real life. Yeah right. The film's big surprise is that all four families live on adjacent corners of the same crossroads - hardly less boring a development than all the rest. In a solid cast only Mercedes Ruehl, as the still attractive Mexican-American mother, produces a truly in-depth performance.