What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Life is a terrible thing to sleep through.
Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility.Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie, who has a knack for finding trouble.Settled into a job at a grocery store and an ongoing affair with local woman Betty Carver, Gilbert finally has his life shaken up by the free-spirited Becky.
- Director
- Lasse Hallström
- Signature
- Craft · Drama · Tension
- Worldwide
- $10M
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Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie, who has a knack for finding trouble. Settled into a job at a grocery store and an ongoing affair with local woman Betty Carver, Gilbert finally has his life shaken up by the free-spirited Becky.
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape returned 0.9× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $11M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $10M
- Release date
- Dec 17, 1993
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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