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What's Eating Gilbert Grape is a 1993 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Lasse Hallström, and starring Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis and Darlene Cates. The film follows the story of Gilbert, a 25-year-old grocery store clerk who is caring for his morbidly obese mother, as well as his autistic younger brother, Arnie. [4]
- What's Eating Gilbert Grape, by Peter Hedges
- Peter Hedges
Mar 4, 1994 · What's Eating Gilbert Grape: Directed by Lasse Hallström. With Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis, Mary Steenburgen. A young man in a small Midwestern town struggles to care for his mentally-disabled younger brother and morbidly obese mother while attempting to pursue his own happiness.
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- Drama
- Lasse Hallström
- 1994-03-04
Mar 4, 1994 · When Gilbert brings Becky to meet Momma, we sense a tension and an excitement that is breaking the pattern of years. One of the movie's best qualities is its way of looking at the fat mother and the retarded brother with sympathy, not pity. Darlene Cates, making her movie debut, has an extraordinary presence on the screen.
Rated: 4/5 • Apr 6, 2021. Mar 22, 2021. Aug 28, 2019. Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother (Darlene Cates ...
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- Lasse Hallström
- PG-13
- Johnny Depp
Synopsis. In the small town of Endora, Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) is busy caring for his mentally challenged brother Arnie (Leonardo DiCaprio) as they wait for the many tourists' trailers to pass through town during their yearly camp ritual at a nearby recreational area. His mother, Bonnie (Darlene Cates) is morbidly obese after years of ...
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Show all movies in the JustWatch Streaming Charts. Streaming charts last updated: 5:22:20 PM, 04/29/2024. What's Eating Gilbert Grape is 10918 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 5790 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than Blind Trust but less popular than ...
- 118 min
What's Eating Gilbert Grape is sometimes hard to watch, but well worth it. There are some difficult scenes dealing with hard-hearted outsiders teasing the Grape family, and some scary ones when Gilbert loses his temper with Arnie. But there are also moments of beauty and compassion, and an offbeat sense of humor throughout.
