What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Special Collector's Edition)
by Lasse Hallstr?m
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Actor: Darlene Cates, Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mary SteenburgenDirector: Lasse Hallstr?m
Brand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-20
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Special Collector's Edition)
DVD Review: Never go full retard
Summary: 4 Stars
Nobody gets eaten in this movie?!
I watched this with my wife, waiting for some cannibals to chow down on Gilbert Grape. No such luck. No gore whatsoever? No murders, explosions, car chases, or wild stunts either.
This is a nice slice of Americana. Movies rarely do half as well at giving a glimpse at real life in America.
Depp does an excellent job in a James Dean type role--the charismatic, brooding young flyboy that is stuck in a little one horse town. He takes care of his half-retarded brother, played with natural precision by Leonardo DiCaprio. Juliette Lewis tones down her dysfunctional persona and turns in a stellar performance as the girlfriend.
This movie has no real plot, the family just prepares for the son's big 18th birthday party. I had almost forgotten what a normal, coming of age movie was like. Surprisingly, I actually enjoyed it.
DVD Review: What's eating Gilbert Grape?
Summary: 5 Stars
One of Johnny Depp's best. Leonardo DeCaprio in what be his first film does a great job portraying the retarded younger brother. He did it without being offensive or stereotyping the role. I enjoyed it and my seller had it delivered sooner than promised. DVD Review: Titanic
Summary: 5 Stars
Have I seen this movie 5 times? I think so, although every time I watch it, it looks as fresh and vital as the first. Today I watched the scene when big mother comes down to the station to pick up her boy. It is a powerful, magnificent scene, riveling in my view the bathroom scene between Burgess Meredith and Sylvester Stallone in "Rocky." Many will praise Johnny Depp, but my eye has always been on young Leo. Depp is pretty and all, so the book makers were obviously right to bet on him, but it is Leo who turns in the great performance. It is incredible. Curiously he hasn't changed all that much. He is THE great talent of his generation, very badly cast in masculine roles that call for boxing and tough guy stuff, for which he is ill suited. He retains to this day his youthful innocence that made him so appealing to the girls in "Titanic." He is no tough guy, though, and always seems weak and ill at ease in Scorsese films. He is a bit like Monty Clift, although many felt that Monty held his own against John Wayne. Come to think of it, Leo may not be the actor Monty was, after all he has done no stage work. Still, he is brilliant on screen as evidenced by this magnificent performance, in a film that should be esteemed a classic. DVD Review: Whats eating Gilbert Grape
Summary: 5 Stars
i love this movie it just shows how great johnny depp and Leonardo Dicaprio are. they both do a great job so you want to watch it over and overDVD Review: Johnny Depp in top form
Summary: 4 Stars
Very enjoyable movie even though the story is sad in a sense. Depp is stuck at home taking care of his mother and brother (Leonardo, who also is fantastic) and dreams of leaving but knows he can't. I'm no movie critic so no in depth review here. All I know is I liked the movie a lot and will watch it again. I give four stars only because five stars are for the very best. Just watch it and see for yourself.
Description of What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Special Collector's Edition)
Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) lives in Endora, a place where nothing much happens. The only times the police got something to do is when Gilbert's autistic brother Arnie (Leonardo DiCaprio) tries to climb up on the watertower nearby. Taking care of Arnie is mostly Gilbert's task which can be pretty demanding, at least while you are working at the local grocery store. Then one day Becky (Juliette Lewis) and her grandmother passes through Endora getting trouble with the car. Gilbert falls in love with Becky, but gets problems when he tries to find time for his own private life.This is the movie that Leonardo DiCaprio received an Oscar nomination for, five years before Titanic. And, in fact, this is the movie that should have made him a star, he's so good in it. Based on the novel by Peter Hedges (who adapted his own book) and directed by Lasse Hallstr?m (My Life as a Dog), this is the funny, moody tale of a young man named Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) who lives at home in a small town with his 500-pound Momma (beautifully played by nonpro Darlene Cates), his mentally retarded younger brother Arnie (DiCaprio, utterly convincing), and his sisters. Not a lot happens--Arnie keeps climbing a water tower and getting stuck; Gilbert is involved with a married woman (Mary Steenburgen), then meets a nice new girl in town who's closer to his age (Juliette Lewis). And that's exactly what makes this movie so much more than your run-of-the-mill Hollywood product: it's not about some mechanical, formulaic plot; it's about these characters, and it allows you to spend some time with them and get to know them. Depp may have started out as a TV teen idol on 21 Jump Street, but his feature film choices since then--in such wonderfully offbeat and diverse movies as Cry-Baby, Edward Scissorhands, Benny & Joon, Donnie Brasco--have made him one of the most interesting, unpredictable, and risk-taking young actors in American movies. --Jim Emerson
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