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La Cocina (2024)

25/10/2024 (MX)Drama, Comedy2h 19m
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Overview

In the sweltering back kitchen of a Times Square restaurant, undocumented cook Pedro is caught between mounting pressures at work and a complicated romance with waitress Julia. When money goes missing, suspicion spreads, igniting tensions that threaten to upend the fragile hopes of the staff.

    Top Billed Cast

    1. Raúl Briones

      Raúl Briones

      Pedro

    2. Rooney Mara

      Rooney Mara

      Julia

    3. Anna Díaz

      Anna Díaz

      Estela

    4. Motell Gyn Foster

      Motell Gyn Foster

      Nonzo

    5. Laura Gómez

      Laura Gómez

      Laura

    6. Oded Fehr

      Oded Fehr

      Rashid

    7. James Waterston

      James Waterston

      Mark

    8. Lee Sellars

      Lee Sellars

      Chef

    9. Eduardo Olmos

      Eduardo Olmos

      Luis

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    A review by CinemaSerf

    6.0
    Written by CinemaSerf on Mar 29, 2025

    If you saw “Boiling Point” (2021) then you’ll get the gist of this drama set in an hectic New York restaurant kitchen. “The Grill” might look peaceful to the customers, but it’s kitchen is a multi-cultural, multi-lingual and attitudinal melting pot of cooks, waitresses and cleaners under the guidance of a no-nonsense chef (Lee Sellars) and a slimy manager “Luis” (Eduardo Olmos). It’s this latter man who finds there’s a problem one morning when his boss reports that $800-odd is missing from one of the cash registers and the owner “Rashid” (Oded Fehr) is seeing red. Using the investigation as a ...

    StatusReleased

    Original LanguageSpanish

    Budget$770,000.00

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    Keywords

    • new york city
    • immigration
    • restaurant
    • times square
    • abortion
    • kitchen