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What's Eating Gilbert Grape is a american film of genre Drama directed by Lasse Hallström released in USA on 4 march 1994 with Johnny Depp
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1994)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 4 march 1994
Length 1h58
Directed by Lasse Hallström
OriginUSA
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism, Films about school violence
Rating76%
What's Eating Gilbert Grape is a 1993 American drama film directed by Lasse Hallström and starring Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, Darlene Cates, and Leonardo DiCaprio. Peter Hedges wrote the screenplay, adapted from his 1991 novel of the same name.
Synopsis
In the small town of Endora, Iowa, Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) is busy caring for Arnie (Leonardo DiCaprio), his brother with a developmental disability, as they wait for the many tourists' trailers to pass through town during their "yearly ritual" of camping at a nearby recreational area. His mother, Bonnie (Darlene Cates), gave up on life after her husband hanged himself seventeen years earlier. She spends almost all of her time on the couch watching TV. With Bonnie unable to care for her children on her own due to her morbid obesity, Gilbert has taken responsibility for repairing the old house and looking after Arnie, who has a habit of climbing the town water tower, while his sisters Amy and Ellen do the rest. The relationship between the brothers is of both care and protection, as Gilbert continually enforces the "nobody touches Arnie" policy. A new FoodLand supermarket has opened, threatening the small Lamson's Grocery where Gilbert works. In addition, Gilbert is having an affair with a married woman, Betty Carver (Mary Steenburgen).Actors
Johnny Depp
(Gilbert Grape)
Juliette Lewis
(Becky)
Mary Steenburgen
(Betty Carver)
Leonardo DiCaprio
(Arnie Grape)
John C. Reilly
(Tucker Van Dyke)
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