This movie follows four Thanksgiving dinners in Los Angeles. The families represent a cross-section of American society: an affluent African-American family, a recent Vietnamese immigrant, a Jewish family, and a Latino family. All with their own family secrets.

They prepare turkey, sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie for the traditional dinner - along with tamales, spring rolls, kugel, macaroni & cheese. There's also sex, politics and prejudice on the menu, along with philandering husbands, stressed-out wives, prodigal sons, rebellious daughters, meddling grandparents, plus estranged and just plain strange relatives.

The Williams's are an upscale African-American family. Ronald (Dennis Haysbert) works for the governor. He lives the yuppie life with wife Audrey (Alfre Woodard), although their marriage is strained because of issues between them and the fact that their older son is not home. Ronald's mother is also present for the holiday, and she is the typical meddling mother-in-law.

Ruth and Herb Seelig (Lainie Kazan and Maury Chaykin) have a daughter Rachel (Kyra Sedgwick) who brings home her lesbian lover, Carla (Julianna Margulies) as a guest. While the Seeligs are not exactly kvelling over their daughter's orientation, they're not kvetching either. The dinner comes to life at dessert time as the slightly inebriated Aunt Bea (Estelle Harris) asks the young women some question that evoke surprising answers.

The Nguyens own a video store in Los Angeles. Matriarch Trinh (Joan Chen) is doing all she can to raise her children to respect her culture. As with many second-generation Asian Americans, the children suffer an enormous generation gap. Her son Jimmy (Will Yun Lee) is not even coming home for Thanksgiving. He says that he is busy with school, but he is actually going to spend the holiday with his girlfriend Gina Avila (Isidra Vega).

The Latino family of Elizabeth Avila (Mercedes Ruehl) is on the verge of tumult during the Thanksgiving feast when Elizabeth's estranged husband Javier (Victor Rivers) shows up though invited only by their son Anthony (Douglas Spain).

In the jewish family daughter Rachel brings home her lesbian lover Carla as a guest. The family didn't knew Rachel is lesbian.

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