Gilbert has many responsibilities he has to take care of his overweight mother and brother, but ever since the arrival of the love of his life, he can’t manage to find time for his private life.
4 August 1977, Travis County, Texas, USA
1 November 1978
21 June 1973, Los Angeles, California, USA
21 July 1955, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, USA
8 February 1953, Newport, Arkansas, USA
30 August 1987, Garland, Texas, USA
7 November 1923, Brooklyn, New York, USA
24 January 1974, Richmond [now Staten Island], New York City, New York, USA
2 March 1960
9 June 1963, Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
4 July 1967, Catonsville, Maryland, USA
13 December 1947, Borger, Texas, USA
20 April 1964, New York City, New York, USA
June 19, 2009
It's endearingly loopy without degenerating into a carnival tent show.
February 11, 2006
Hallström's finally struck a chord with the Americans, though it's much the same cocktail of whimsy and worry, the eccentric and the banal, that he's been mixing all along.
May 20, 2003
Particularly impressive are the sweet, weirdly idyllic tone of Mr. Hallstrom's direction and Johnny Depp's tender, disarming performance as the long-suffering Gilbert Grape.
February 08, 2010
Even if you have a taste as I do for movies about dysfunctional families, you may be a little put off by the Grapes.
February 13, 2001
Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom and his fine cast have endowed the story with a good deal of behavioral truth and unstressed comedy.
July 10, 2007
There is not much plot to speak of, but the film instead presents a moody, elegiac atmosphere of longing and desperation that is powerfully tangible ....
June 29, 2007
Hallstrom finds the right bittersweet tone for his dysfunctional family tale (and one of Hollywood's few films about obesity), marvelously acted by Johnny Depp and particularly Leonardo DiCaprio in his second outing as a retarded adolescent.
March 08, 2008
Quite wonderful character study, great acting turns by Depp and DiCaprio, among others.
June 19, 2009
It's as fascinating to see DiCaprio before he became a bona fide star as it is to watch Depp at the very moment he cemented his reputation for coolness.
June 19, 2009
Suggests that the true heroes are those people who day by day must tend to misfits, and do so with love, tenacity and a determination not to go terminally sour in the process.
January 01, 2011
A challenging look at the ups and downs of family.
