What's Eating Gilbert Grape

About What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie, who has a knack for finding trouble.

Lasse Hallström's What's Eating Gilbert Grape is a 1993 romance film. It runs 118 minutes and was released in December 1993.

Its themes are single mother, dysfunctional family, widow, and mentally disabled. The story is adapted from a novel.

Johnny Depp takes the lead as Gilbert Grape, Leonardo DiCaprio as Arnie Grape, Juliette Lewis as Becky, and Mary Steenburgen as Betty Carver. The screenplay is by Peter Hedges. Produced by Paramount Pictures.

Kes, Forrest Gump, and A Simple Favor make useful companions to What's Eating Gilbert Grape, all filed under sibling relationship. TMDB voters put it at 7.7 out of 10 across 4,390 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.