![]() ![]() ![]() There is some violence (slapping an autistic boy, a scene of pulling his hair and dragging him on the ground. It deals with a lot of death including suicide. This film is very depressing, it's very sad and emotional. Meeting new girl Becky, and eventually falling in love, she helps to shape his life back to normal. Raising his sisters and autistic brother (Leonardo DiCaprio), he deals with so many responsibilities that soon drives him up the wall. Probably one of the very best movies that deals with dysfunctional families and it's very realistic! Gilbert (Johnny Depp) is troubled and confused, after the death of his father and his mother giving up on life and becoming terribly obese, it leaves Gilbert the man of the house. There is just something so lovable about the story. I loved it, even though it deals with a lot of adult situations throughout. My sister introduced me to this movie when we were young, around the first time it came out on video (nothing much disturbed me - I could handle almost any film). Occasional profanity: "s-t," "a-hole," "hell." Cigarette smoking and drinking. This husband, overwhelmed and stressed-out, loses his temper on his kids, forcing them into their kiddie pool before he dies of a heart attack (not shown). Gilbert is in the midst of an affair with an older married woman - at one point she tries to initiate oral sex on him while he's on the phone with her husband. The teenage son Arnie ( Leonardo DiCaprio) is developmentally disabled, which causes him to repeat words and phrases overheard while being incapable of understanding how these words might be hurtful to others, such as repeating "Dad's dead!" at the dinner table while holding his hands to his neck in imitation of the way his father killed himself in the basement. The mother, who has been morbidly obese since the suicide of her husband, is presented as a fully-developed character, but is also the victim of taunting from both children and adults. Parents need to know that What's Eating Gilbert Grape? is a 1993 coming-of-age movie in which a young man, Gilbert ( Johnny Depp), tries to carve out a life of his own even as he must be the "man of the house" to his dependent family.
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