What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Pros: Offbeat film with a unique tone and superb acting.
Cons: Under-appreciated, some unevenness in tone.

There is an entire school of analysis dedicated to the proposition that all stories are driven by a central question which, once answered, renders the story useless. If this were true, 1993's What's Eating Gilbert Grape would be pointless after...

Pros: Cast, particularly DiCapprio, powerful and moving story...
Cons: ... doesn't pull any punches so may be unsettling for some viewers...

Who’s Eating Gilbert Grape is a touching and quite astonishing film, which was a significant path to fame for many cast members. It is the story of Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp), who has an extremely dysfunctional family – a father who ...

Pros: great performances and dialogue, great characters
Cons: soft plotting

It only took me twelve years to get around to seeing Gilbert Grape, the 1993 drama showcasing the acting talents of Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio. I heard good things about the film, but every time I asked somebody what it was about, I got a lot of ...

Pros: Great story, two great acting performances, understated story...
Cons: Maybe a bit sappy...

Gilbert Grape lives a modest live in the nowhere town of Endora, Illinois. A young man of twenty-song years, he resides with his dysfunctional yet completely loving family in a large aged farmhouse. This is the basis of the 1993 film What’s Eating ...

Pros: Wonderful acting, beautiful story
Cons: None

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) in an amazing novel by Peter Hedges, and, in this case, an even more amazing movie. Peter Hedges wrote the screenplay to the movie as well, as it tells the story of the goings on in a very small Mid-Western ...

Pros: Great acting, fantastic story, Johnny Depp
Cons: Mushy at times. But Johnny makes up for it

Family... sometimes a responsibility you can't wait to be released from, sometimes a group of people you can't be away from. I had heard and seen so much about What's Eating Gilbert Grape and finally got a copy for my birthday last month. Of ...

Pros: Odd, different, and memorable.
Cons: DiCaprio was cheated out of an Academy Award.

Let me begin this review my admitting I am a huge fan of independent films and my favorite channel is the Sundance channel (though my area unfortunately doesn't receive the channel). What's Eating Gilbert Grape, which is based on the novel by ...

Pros: Performances. Script. Characters.
Cons: A few weak scenes.

Ah, the American drama. Such a fleeting genre. Mention it, and one might have a difficult time recalling any fitting and notable films that have been released within the past few years. A merican Beauty and ...

Pros: All the performances, a subtext that doesn't beat you over the head
Cons: Some may find it cloying and melodramatic (I didn't)

Set in the fictional town of Endora, Illinois (quite a pregnant name for a city), "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" focuses on the down but not yet out Grape family: a mother (Darlene Cates) who weighs over 500 pounds, two sisters (Laura Harrington and Mary...

Pros: Every single minute of film
Cons: nope

Meet the Grapes: Albert Grape, the father, has hung himself from a basement rafter seventeen years before we first meet the family. The matriarch of the family, known to us only as "Momma," is accurately, if somewhat unsympathetically, described by her...

Pros: It's just a great film.
Cons: None

I rewatched What’s Eating Gilbert Grape last week because I wanted to see Kevin Tighe.

In my searchings I had read a comment by Kevin Tighe about the projects he chooses. He likes to work on things that mean something. He doesn’t just want to...

Pros: Excellent performances; wholly original concept; beautiful scenery; many funny moments
Cons: Could be seen as melodramatic or unrealistic

The American Family is an institution slowly deteriorating, especially in Hollywood. What makes "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" so good is the way it shows how a family who you assume would be the most dysfunctional turns out to be the just the opposite. ...

Pros: Lewis and, painfully, DiCaprio
Cons: Gilbert's life

Had I know Leonardo DiCaprio was in this I probably wouldn't have watched it. As it was, I was glad I did for he gave a terrific performance. Could this have been his first release? When the movie came out the title led me away from it as we...

Pros: Great Acting, Good Story
Cons: Very Sad

Their dad is dead. Their mom is extremely obese. Their brother is mentally challenged. What else could be wrong with this family? Brother Gilbert and his two sister basically take care of the whole family: keeping an eye on Arnie and making sure he's not...

Pros: Johnny Depp and Leonardo Decaprio did a fantastic job!
Cons: it will make you cry :)

What's eating Gilbert Grape is a wonderful and sad movie about a family who has alot of problems and then some. Gilbert is the older brother who is literally the man of the house because his father has committed suicide and his mother is severely obese,...