What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

A deeply tragic yet deeply real tale of a complicated family stuck in a simple town. Performances are unmatched and truly wonderful. Beautiful cinematography and superb directing.

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WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE?

What's Eating Gilbert 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 realisation unties new feelings, new thoughts and new hope for the put upon Gilbert, something new is eating Gilbert Grape.

Awards won:

• CFCA Award
• Guild Film Award - Silver
• Golden Aphrodite
• NBR Award

Nominated for:

• Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
• Golden Globe

Source: IMDb http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108550/plotsummary

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