Story Line
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.
“Life is a terrible thing to sleep through.”
Top Cast
Johnny Depp
Gilbert Grape
Leonardo DiCaprio
Arnie Grape
Juliette Lewis
Becky
Mary Steenburgen
Betty Carver
Darlene Cates
Momma
Laura Harrington
Amy Grape
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Rating
7.7/ 10
Release Date
1993-12-17
Runtime
1h 58m
Genres
RomanceDrama
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User Reviews (4)
Peter McGinn
7/10
•12/11/2021I recently watched this movie again after many years, and was surprised how many details I had forgotten. It features a great ensemble cast who seem to mostly share a screen rapport. Leonardo DiCaprio previews his future star career with a stellar pe...
Filipe Manuel Neto
3/10
•11/27/2022**A rather conventional and average family drama, where DiCaprio and Depp's performances turn out to be the only truly worthy note.**
Sometimes, what makes a film remarkable is the extraordinary performance of an actor, and that becomes even more ...
GenerationofSwine
10/10
•1/11/2023So, I had no idea who Leonardo was when I saw this back in the 90s, it was before Titanic, before he made it big, and I thought they hired an intellectually disabled man to play the part.
And it dropped in '93 so that would make Dicaprio about 19?...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•4/23/2024With his mother (Darlene Cates) morbidly obese and equally embarrassed about her image, and his younger brother "Arnie" (Leonardo DiCaprio) dealing with mental health issues, it falls to "Gilbert" (Johnny Depp) to try and provide as best he can for h...