What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Life is a terrible thing to sleep through.
Life is a terrible thing to sleep through.
Drama, Romance
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1993
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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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Rated:
PG-13
Runtime:
118 min
Release date:
17 Dec 1993
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$11,000,000
Revenue:
$10,032,765
Awards:
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 8 wins & 7 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
Director Lasse Halstrom and cinematographer Sven Nykvist do their best to disguise the predictability with their own grace notes. But all the music in the world can't hide a tone this false.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom and his fine cast have endowed the story with a good deal of behavioral truth and unstressed comedy.
– Todd McCarthy,
Variety,
13 Feb 2001
fresh:
Particularly impressive are the sweet, weirdly idyllic tone of Mr. Hallstrom's direction and Johnny Depp's tender, disarming performance as the long-suffering Gilbert Grape.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
Suggests that the true heroes are those people who day by day must tend to misfits, and do so with love, tenacity and a determination not to go terminally sour in the process.
– Richard Corliss,
TIME Magazine,
19 Jun 2009
rotten:
Even if you have a taste as I do for movies about dysfunctional families, you may be a little put off by the Grapes.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
8 Feb 2010