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Synopsis: What's Eating Gibert 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 realization unties new fe
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Lasse Hallström
Production: Paramount Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
73
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
PG-13
Year:
1993
118 min
3,561 Views


Did you know that?

I think you mean shining.

No. Shimmering.

You shimmer and you glow.

You rest, okay?

Get some sleep.

Hey!

Mama!

Mama! Mama!

Wake up!

You're hiding, huh?

I know that.

Wake up!

Mama, wake up!

Mama, stop it now!

Stop, Mama!

Stop it.

Arnie? Arnie?

What's wrong?

What's wrong? Stop it!

Gilbert!

Gilbert!

- Arnie!

- Don't... Give me... Stop!

Mom!

I'm gonna need

some more men, Amy.

Hey, flash the lights.

Flash 'em.

You may need the National Guard

to move her out of there.

I'm sorry about that.

l-It's gonna take a crane

to get her out.

There's gonna be a crowd.

I just know

there's gonna be a crowd.

She's so beautiful.

She's no joke. She's no joke.

I'm not gonna let her be a joke.

Arnie.

We're gonna need your help.

Gilbert, is that them?

No. No, not yet.

- When are they gonna come?

- Pretty soon.

Pretty soon.

My brother Arnie's

about to turn 19.

Nineteen.

Gilbert, look there!

Amy got a job offer

to manage a bakery in Des Moines.

- Is that them?

- Yeah, that's them.

Ellen can't wait

to switch schools.

Arnie asked if we were gonna

go, too, and I said...

"Well, we can go anywhere

if we want.

- Becky!

- We can go anywhere."

Becky's comin', huh, Gilbert?

Yep. She's comin'.

Becky!

Come on! Come on, Gilbert.

Hey!

Hi! Hi.

Hi! Hi!

- I'm fine.

- Hi!

- How are you?

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Peter Hedges

Peter Simpson Hedges (born July 6, 1962) is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. more…

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