What's Eating Gilbert Grape

It's getting harder to find the old movies in the stores. So glad for Amazon. Played perfectly!

Great Johnny Depp and Leonardo Decapero great performance sets on alot of different struggles and challenges people go through

Awesome movie! Everyone should see it. Even though it's an older movie, Johnny Depp and, especially Leonardo DeCaprio were excellent!! He plays a disabled boy. Love it!!

Was a favorite of mine growing up and it’s a favorite of my 12 year old as well. I think this may have been her favorite birthday gift!

This is a snappy title, but perhaps it should be called "What Isn't Eating Gilbert Grape?" Gilbert (Johnny Depp) feels trapped: his younger brother, a high maintenance problem is mentally challenged (in a brilliant acting job by Leonardo Di Caprio), his mother is reclusive and grossly overweight at 500 pounds, he's in a deadend job in a small grocery store trying to compete with a giant supermarket, he's fooling around with a married woman (beautifully played by Mary Steenburger), and he's stuck in the deadened small town of Endora which equals Endure. DiCaprio's character loves to climb water towers, trees, roofs, and it's challenging to keep an eye on him. Gilbert's problems are too much for any one man to handle, but he finds love in a girl who is trapped in town when her truck-pulling trailer breaks down. Pick-up trucks are almost characters in this flick. The 1993 movie is blessed by an unusually large number of individual three-dimensional character studies. Minor roles are fleshed out, and real people emerge. It's a film that doesn't try to sugarcoat or look for easy solutions. At the beginning Gilbert shows some mean streaks in his attitude toward his mother, but the developing story brings out tenderness and love. It has its comic moments, its sad bits, but manages to keep the audience involved. The family's father is gone, and Gilbert is standing in for him, up to his hips in mire. The only way out is the highway leading out of the small burg, but can that offer real salvation to Gilbert?

Received in a timely manner,looks like it will be a good family movie to watch!!!

GOOD FOR OLDER CHILDREN THAT HAS DIFFERENT DISABILITIES OR YOUNGER UP TOO THE PARENTSWHATS AGE APPROPRIATE.

"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." The Grapes of Wrath Each time I watch 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape?' I am transported in memory to the small town in which I was raised on the Western border of the panhandle of Idaho, population: pert near 90; almost all related one way or another. My uncle, four years younger than I, was diagnosed with several physical anomalies shortly after birth. Within a year or two, it became apparent that he was learning disabled. He tolerated several surgeries on his eyes and legs, and having seven older siblings giving him all kinds of attention, he thrived. Our small town became his little sovereign nation, of sorts, as did the Grape family and their house in the country. A sort of soft isolation which protects and nurtures can be a great defense for a while, at least. Eventually, though, the outside world must be allowed its chance to either toughen us up or do its damage. Arnie, Gilbert's affected brother, played brilliantly by Leo DiCaprio, and their mother each have issues away from the safety of home. Bonnie, having eaten herself to enormity after her husband abandons the family, so to speak, finds it very difficult both physically and emotionally to leave her house. Arnie, on the other hand, loves to take off with Gilbert whenever possible or flee into town and climb the water tower at will, regardless of consequences. Then, there is sister Ellen, a handful, who also lives at home. This leaves Gilbert, a teenager, toting a bulging load. Relief comes in the form of Becky, Juliette Lewis, who befriends Gilbert and becomes a conduit, bringing hope and dreams back to life for him. This is by far one of my favorite movies of all time. The power behind this picture is in the alchemic synergy of Johnny Depp and Leo DiCaprio so closely paired in this great project. So many viewers have lauded DiCaprio for the genius he brought to his role, but without Depp's unique talent to receive and react...I don't know. To sum it all up, as Gilbert puts a bandage on Arnie, he asks him, "And why am I going to make it better?" Arnie replies, "Cause you are Gilbert." "Cause I am Gilbert," his brother reassures. Pure gold!

タイタニックしか知らなかったディカプリオ。 あまり好きな俳優ではなかったが、この映画を観て衝撃を受けた。それはこの映画を撮ったとき、かれはまだ１８歳（？）。あまりにも素晴らしい演技力に見終わったとき呆然とした。勿論他の主演者もどなたも演技派揃い。 しかしディカプリオ演じる知能障害者アーニー・グレイプの無邪気な純真さを見たとき、 ひょっとしてこれを演じてるデイカプリオは天使ではないかと思ったくらい。 実際、アーニー・グレイプイは天使なのだ。 レオナルド・デイカプリオは驚くべき俳優だと、遅まきながら気づいた。 勿論ジョニー・デップの虚ろな、しかしながら透き通った表情も訴えるものがある。 弟アーニーを思わず殴ってしまった後のやりきれない表情には何度見ても泣かされる。 これは地味ではあるけれど、素晴らしい映画だ。

Ist das ein Film oder eine Verfilmung von einer wahren Begebenheit? Ich weiß es nicht, aber ich würde vermuten, dass es zweiteres ist - nicht, weil ich dafür irgendwelche Hinweise habe oder es gerne so sehen würde, nein. Ganz einfach deswegen, weil der Film einfach so real und wirklich ist, dass man sich nach dem Film sehr mitgenommen fühlt. Über den Inhalt selbst wurde schon einiges geschrieben, sodass ich mich auf meine Eindrücke konzentrieren kann. Die schauspielerischen Leistungen aller Personen sind aussergewöhnlich gut (und das, obwohl ich Caprio normalerweise wirklich nicht mag). Die Art und Weise, wie der Film die Geschichte dieser Familie erzählt, ist einfach einmalig und genial. Man bekommt einfach nicht den Eindruck, dass man hier einen Film sieht, sondern glaubt wirklich, dass man diese Geschehnisse so beobachtet, als ob sie nebenan passieren würden - denn nichts an diesem Film wirkt gestellt, hingebogen oder überzeichnet. Im Gegenteil, er ist mit so einfachen Hilfsmitteln (d.h. ohne Special-Effects, etc.) gemacht worden, dass er umso authentischer und besser wirkt. Wer glanzvolle Schauspieler, eine packende, wenn auch traurige Geschichte und viel Gefühl sehen möchte, muss einfach zugreifen! 5 Sterne und eine absolute Kauf- und/oder Sehempfehlung!

Having watched pretty much all of Leo's films..this has to be right up there with the best acting of them all. I'd say they all did a good job throughout the movie but to have played the part as well as he did..Leo needed to study the disability and have some sympathy with the problem to be able to choreograph the tics and the movements and the excitement so very well. A joy to watch. And..at a young age as an actor too.. very well directed, some humorous moments, feelings away from the family chores, townsfolk ignorance, just a very well put together story which can only be appreciated from the armchair. Loved it and recommend it to anyone.

Très bon film

Great film and actor lm very happy with the seller and product