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What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) | User Rating
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Release Date
• USA: Dec 25, 1993
DVD Release Date
• R1: Nov 27, 2001
• R2: 29 Mar 2004
Budget $11,000,000
MPAA Rating
PG13
Running Time
1 hour, 58 minutes
Country USA
Studio Paramount
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Other Titles
• What's Eating Gilbert Grape
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Genre: Drama, Comedy, Mental Illness, Coming Of Age, Tragedy, Surreal, Infidelity, Teenage
Tagline: Life is a terrible thing to sleep through.
Plot: Bizarre, whimsical, and touching scenes mark WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE. Johnny Depp is Gilbert, the eldest brother in a large family of a very large (morbidly obese, actually) mother (Darlene Cates) who hasn't left the house since her husband committed suicide years before. Leonardo DiCaprio, who received an Academy Award nomination for his role, is Arnie, Gilbert's retarded teenage brother who needs constant supervision (he's often found scaling the town water tower). Caring, passive Gilbert is burdened beyond reason, living a dead-end life in a dying small town, stocking shelves at a grocery store whose business being taken over by the new mall supermarket. Gilbert's best friends (Crispin Glover and John C. Reilly) see their futures in the form of undertaker and Burger Barn owner, and Gilbert's other social life is taken up with a random affair with a frustrated and reckless housewife (Mary Steenburgen). Everyone needs the constantly patient Gilbert, whose future seems equally grim until well-traveled, straightforward Becky (Juliette Lewis) and her nonconformist grandmother (Penelope Branning) come to town. Their camper is in need of repair, so Becky stays long enough to actually have an effect on Gilbert, making his new life spiral in wild ways. Based on the novel by Peter
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| Written by |
Peter Hedges
About a Boy, A Map of the World, Pieces of April |
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| Cast |
Johnny Depp
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
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Back to the Future, Charlie's Angels, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle |
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| Music By |
Björn Isfält
My Life as a Dog, Ronja Rövardotter, House of Angels | Alan Parker
Jaws 3-D, American Gothic, Victoria & Albert |
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