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What’s eating Gilbert Grape
Year: 1993
Directed by: Lasse Halmström
Written by: Peter Hedges (novel and screenplay)
Music by: Björn Isfält, Alan Parker
Johnny Depp playing: Gilbert Grape
Runtime: 118 min.
Release Date: December 17th, 1993
Plot Summary
The film opens in the small fictional town of Endora, Iowa, where 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) is morbidly overweight, after years of depression following her husband’s suicide. With Bonnie unable to care for the children by herself, Gilbert has taken responsibility for repairing their old farmhouse and looking after Arnie, who has a habit of climbing the town water tower if he is left unsupervised for too long, while his sisters Amy (Laura Harrington) and Ellen (Mary Kate Schellhardt) do the chores and the cooking. 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 store where Gilbert works. In addition, Gilbert is having an affair with a married woman,
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