¿A quien ama Gilbert Grape? (What´s Eating Gilbert Grape?)

Año 1993

Sinópsis:

En un pequeño pueblo del medio oeste americano. Un jóven (Johnny Depp) empleado de una tienda de ultramarinos que cuida de su peculiar familia, abrumado por la atención que requiere hacerse cargo de una madre (Darlene Cates) inmensamente gorda y de un hermano con autismo (Leonardo Di Caprio) . Además está teniendo una aventura con una clienta casada (Mary Steenburgen), pero su vida emocional y personal cambiará por completo gracias a una chica divertida y de espíritu libre (Juliette Lewis).

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...

Año: 1993

Duración: 118 min.

Titulo original: What´s Eating Gilbert Grape?

Pais: USA.

Director: Lasse Hallström
Escrita: Peter Hedges (novela), Peter Hedges (guión)
Música: Björn Isfalt
Fotografía: Sven Nykvist

Actores:Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis,  Mary Steenburgen, Darlene Cates, John C. Reilly, Laura Harrington, Crispin Glover, Kevin Tighe.
Género: Drama

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