What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993)
Country: US
Technical: col 118m
Director: Lasse Hallström
Cast: Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis, Mary Steenburgen
Synopsis:
Endora, Iowa: years after the suicide of his father, Gilbert finds himself keeping his house up, looking after his retarded brother and obese mother, and generally waiting for some miracle to free him from his dead-end existence.
Review:
The small-town characters, the farcical infidelities, the offbeat moments poised between grotesque comedy and socio-political taboo: all the ingredients of the director's canine breakthrough film are there. It works because it avoids condescension and gives even its least likeable characters a chance to appear human.
Country: US
Technical: col 118m
Director: Lasse Hallström
Cast: Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis, Mary Steenburgen
Synopsis:
Endora, Iowa: years after the suicide of his father, Gilbert finds himself keeping his house up, looking after his retarded brother and obese mother, and generally waiting for some miracle to free him from his dead-end existence.
Review:
The small-town characters, the farcical infidelities, the offbeat moments poised between grotesque comedy and socio-political taboo: all the ingredients of the director's canine breakthrough film are there. It works because it avoids condescension and gives even its least likeable characters a chance to appear human.
Country: US
Technical: col 118m
Director: Lasse Hallström
Cast: Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis, Mary Steenburgen
Synopsis:
Endora, Iowa: years after the suicide of his father, Gilbert finds himself keeping his house up, looking after his retarded brother and obese mother, and generally waiting for some miracle to free him from his dead-end existence.
Review:
The small-town characters, the farcical infidelities, the offbeat moments poised between grotesque comedy and socio-political taboo: all the ingredients of the director's canine breakthrough film are there. It works because it avoids condescension and gives even its least likeable characters a chance to appear human.