Whats Eating Gilbert Grape
- Release Date
- December 17, 1993
- Director
- Lasse Hallström
- Cast
- Johnny Depp , Leonardo DiCaprio , Juliette Lewis , Mary Steenburgen , Darlene Cates , Laura Harrington
- Runtime
- 118
- Main Genre
- Drama
- Studio
- J&M Entertainment
- Writers
- Peter Hedges
- Tagline
- Arnie knows a secret. His big brother Gilbert is the greatest person on the planet.
Summary
What's Eating Gibert Grape is a beautifully shot movie of tenderness, caring and self-awareness that is set amongst the fictional working class one street town Endora. Centred around the Grape family Ellen and Amy and their two brothers Arnie and Gilbert, who, along with their morbidly obese widowed mother Bonnie Grape are striving to survive and coexist with the absence of a father figure, low wage work and seventeen-year-old Arnie's severe mental condition. It is in this awkward and extremely one sided affair that the unfortunate Gilbert has to constantly, while working for the town's slowly dying Convenience Store, take care of his younger brother Arnie. Gilbert's life, his future, is thwarted he know this, but it is in this Guardian Angel that his love and bond for Arnie cannot, and will not, be let go. That is until the free spirit of Becky arrives in town, and with her grandmother are stranded for the week while waiting for parts for their vehicle. This realization unties new feelings, new thoughts and new hope for the put upon Gibert, something new is eating Gilbert Grape.
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