Writers: Peter Hedges

Director: Lasse Hallström; Budget: $11,000,000 (estimated)

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 know 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.

Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) Iowa eyaletinin küçük ve sakin bir kasabası olan Endora'da oldukça şişman olduğu için zor hareket eden annesi, zeka özürlü kardeşi Arnie (Leonardo Di Caprio) ve iki kızkardeşiyle beraber yaşamakta olan genç bir delikanlıdır.Gilbert, kasabadaki markette çalışmakta ve Mrs. Carver adlı evli bir kadınla birlikte olmaktadır.Gilbert'in garip ve onu mutsuz eden bir hayatı vardır. Birgün Michigan'dan kasabaya gelip yerleşen Becky (Juliette Lewis) adlı bir kızla tanışır ve hayatı değişir.

Color; Filming Locations: Georgetown, Texas, USA

Language: English/Dili:İngilizce