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What's Eating Gilbert Grape

1993, Movie, 1h 58min

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. Settled into a job at a grocery store and an ongoing affair with local woman Betty Carver, Gilbert finally has his life shaken up by the free-spirited Becky.

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Reviews

Critic Angie Errigo

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What's Eating Gilbert Grape? is as odd and funny a collection of cares as ever beset the youthful protagonist of a movie.

Read full review at Empire

Julia Larsen

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En favorit i sann Hallström-anda. Det blir inte mycket bättre än så här. Att Leo inte vann en Oscar är dock ett mysterium.

1 year ago

Tanni M. Tarnak

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Utroligt at DeCaprio ikke fik en Oscar for denne præstation.

2 years ago

Heaver FC

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bra film ett av världens bätsta skådespel i filmhistorian

1 year ago

Critic Rebecca Unnerud

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Den går rakt in i hjärtat och stannar där.

Read full review at Moviezine

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In the small town of Endora, Iowa, Gilbert Grape is a young man who has taken on the responsibility of caring for his intellectually disabled brother Arnie and their obese mother after their father's suicide. He works at a local grocery store and has an affair with a married woman, Betty Carver. When a free-spirited young woman named Becky and her grandmother arrive in town, Gilbert is drawn to her and begins to question his life choices. As he spends more time with Becky, he neglects his family responsibilities, leading to a series of events that threaten to upset his already fragile family dynamics.

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