What's eating Gilbert Grape? [videorecording - DVD]

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublication details: [S.l.] : Optimum Home Entertainment, 2006Description: 1 videodisc (118 mins.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Directed by Lasse Hallstrom
Cast: Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette LewisScope and content: Endora, Iowa has never been the most exciting place in the world but it can be the most complicated. Just ask Gilbert Grape. Since his father decided to hang himself in the basement, Gilbert has become the designated head of the family. Now his life revolves around catering for the emotionally demanding needs of this distraught, monstrously obese mother, his battling sisters and his autistic younger brother. That's not to mention his disasterous affair with a bored, sexually demanding housewife and the prospect of his job being threatened by the arrival of a "Foodland". But things are about the change with the arrival of the beautiful and free spirited Becky and soon Gilbert must choose between obligation and personal freedom
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Based on the book by Peter Hedges

Directed by Lasse Hallstrom

Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis

Endora, Iowa has never been the most exciting place in the world but it can be the most complicated. Just ask Gilbert Grape. Since his father decided to hang himself in the basement, Gilbert has become the designated head of the family. Now his life revolves around catering for the emotionally demanding needs of this distraught, monstrously obese mother, his battling sisters and his autistic younger brother. That's not to mention his disasterous affair with a bored, sexually demanding housewife and the prospect of his job being threatened by the arrival of a "Foodland". But things are about the change with the arrival of the beautiful and free spirited Becky and soon Gilbert must choose between obligation and personal freedom

Originally released 1993

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