What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Lasse Hallström · 1993 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

In a shrinking Iowa town a young grocery clerk minds a brother who keeps climbing the water tower and a mother who has not left the sofa in seven years, while the family house settles under her weight. A woman travelling through in a stalled camper gives him a reason to look past the county line. Hallström's American breakthrough, and the role that first established Leonardo DiCaprio.

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