One of the best dramas ever. In a small town where nothing happens, every scene is an event as Gilbert deals with life.
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07/14/03
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
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Reviews Counted:40
Fresh:36
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.5/10
Synopsis: Bizarre, whimsical, and touching scenes mark WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE. Johnny Depp is Gilbert, the eldest brother in a large family of a very large (morbidly obese, actually) mother (Darlene... [More]
Starring: Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, Mary Steenburgen, Leonardo DiCaprio
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Reviews for What's Eating Gilbert Grape
As a formula movie, it is a failure. As an interesting and likeable piece of offbeat filmmaking, it’s a very pleasant -- if modest -- success.
12/04/01
No review available.
07/08/05
No review available.
02/13/04
All tics, flailings, and full-open, drooling laughter, DiCaprio seems to have captured the damaged heart and soul of Arnie Grape.
01/01/00
No review available.
09/23/04
It's as fascinating to see DiCaprio before he became a bona fide star as it is to watch Depp at the very moment he cemented his reputation for coolness.
06/19/09
One of the most enchanting movies of the year.
01/01/00
Top CriticNo review available.
04/11/06
An overrated film. DiCaprio gives a great performance as a mentally retarded boy. It's so good, in fact, that's it's difficult to watch.
09/27/02
There is a warmth and wit and insightfulness here that brings the film significantly up a few notches from the usual fare on this subject, and the performances are all excellent.
01/01/00
There is not much plot to speak of, but the film instead presents a moody, elegiac atmosphere of longing and desperation that is powerfully tangible ....
07/10/07
No review available.
07/26/02
Hallstrom finds the right bittersweet tone for his dysfunctional family tale (and one of Hollywood's few films about obesity), marvelously acted by Johnny Depp and particularly Leonardo DiCaprio in his second outing as a retarded adolescent.
06/29/07
On the strength of DiCaprio and Depp's performances, What's Eating Gilbert Grape is a fantastic look at the anachronisms of small-town life and the myriad problems of coping with a go-nowhere existence.
11/23/01
A fantastic look at the anachronisms of small-town life and the myriad problems of coping with a go-nowhere existence.
11/23/01
First, the good part. There is a 20 second clip of an architecturally interesting courthouse. The rest of the show is either boring or unbearably depressing.
01/01/00
No review available.
11/14/03
No review available.
04/30/04
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