What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) ( What is Eating Gilbert Grape )

What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Alternate Title: What is Eating Gilbert Grape
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( DTS 5.1 )
German ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
112 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1993 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Lasse Hallstrom

Written By:
Peter Hedges

Actors:
Johnny Depp ..... Gilbert Grape
Leonardo DiCaprio ..... Arnie Grape
Juliette Lewis ..... Becky
Mary Steenburgen ..... Betty Carver
Darlene Cates ..... Bonnie Grape
Laura Harrington ..... Amy Grape
Mary Kate Schellhardt ..... Ellen Grape
Kevin Tighe ..... Ken Carver
John C. Reilly ..... Tucker Van Dyke
Crispin Glover ..... Bobby McBurney
Penelope Branning ..... Becky's Grandma
Tim Green ..... Mr. Lamson
Susan Loughran ..... Mrs. Lamson
Robert B. Hedges ..... Minister
Mark Jordan ..... Todd Carver

Synopsis:

Gilbert Grape lives in Endora, a place where nothing much happens. The only times the police got something to do is when Gilbert's autistic brother Arnie tries to climb up on the watertower nearby. Taking care of Arnie is mostly Gilbert's task which can be pretty demanding, at least while you are working at the local grocery store. Then one day Becky and her grandmother passes through Endora getting trouble with the car. Gilbert falls in love with Becky, but gets problems when he tries to find time for his own private life.

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 knows this, but it is in this Guardian Angel that his love and bond for Arnie cannot, and will not, be let go. That is until the free spirit of Becky arrives in town, and with her grandmother are stranded for the week while waiting for parts for their vehicle. This realization unties new feelings, new thoughts and new hope for the put upon Gibert, something new is eating Gilbert Grape.

After his father's death, Gilbert has to care for his mentally disabled brother, Arnie, and his morbidly obese mother, which is suddenly challenged when love walks into his life.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 27 September, 2016.