Quirky dramedy from Lasse Hallstrom ("My Life as a Dog") about Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp), a small-town Iowa grocery store clerk with dreams of getting away from his family, which includes mentally challenged younger brother Arnie (Leonardo DiCaprio) and obese mother Bonnie (Darlene Cates). Will Becky (Juliette Lewis), the young woman who just arrived in town, help Gilbert realize his dreams? Mary Steenburgen also stars; based on the novel by Peter Hedges. 128 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital stereo Surround; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; photo gallery; featurette; theatrical trailer.
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.