What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1994)
What's Eating Gilbert Grape is a book-based movie adapted from "What's eating Gilbert Grape" by Peter Hedges. This Romance/Drama film is a direct adaptation, and its release date is March 4, 1994.
The Source Material
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Overview
Just about everything in Endora, Iowa (pop. 1,091 and dwindling) is eating Gilbert Grape, a twenty-four-year-old grocery clerk who dreams only of leaving. His enormous mother, once the town sweetheart, has been eating nonstop ever since her husband's suicide,…
About The Movie
Description
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.
Details
- Title
- What's Eating Gilbert Grape
- Original Title
- What's Eating Gilbert Grape
- Original Language
- EN
- Genres
- Romance, Drama
- US Theatrical
- March 4, 1994 · Rated PG-13
- US Limited Theatrical
- December 17, 1993 · Rated PG-13