WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE
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Title: What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Year: 1993 Johnny Depp plays: Gilbert Grape Directed by: Lasse Hallström Written by: Peter Hedges (novel and screenplay) Genre: Drama/Romance MPAA Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 128 minutes |
PLOT
Gilbert Grape lives in Endora--a small town where not much of anything happens. He spends his days working at a slowly dying convenience store and caring for and trying to hold his family together--which consists of his mentally handicapped brother Arnie, his two sisters Amy and Ellen, and his obese mother who is a former beauty queen. Then one day Becky and her grandmother arrives in Endora... and her free spirit captures Gilbert's heart, changing his life.
QUOTES
Momma: You're my knight in shimmering armor. Did you know that?
Gilbert: I think you mean shining.
Momma: No shimmering. You shimmer, and you glow.
Tucker: How's momma?
Gilbert: She's fat.
Tucker: Come on man. She's not all that big, Gilbert.
Gilbert: What?
Tucker: Listen, I saw a guy at the state fair that was... a little bit
bigger.
Gilbert: A little bit bigger?
Tucker: Look, all I'm sayin is that she's not the biggest I ever seen,
okay?
Gilbert: Tucker, she's a whale!
Tucker: Well take her out for a walk once and while.
Gilbert: Take her out for a jog!
Arnie: She's a whale! Tucker, she's a whale!
Arnie: Mama, I want hot dogs. I want hot dogs, Mama.
Momma: OK, Sunshine, you can have hot dogs.
Gilbert: You know what? You're such a big boy.
Arnie: Yeah!
Gilbert: You're such a big boy.
Arnie: I'm a big boy!
Gilbert: You know what? I bet you could do this all by yourself if you
really wanted to. Could you do this by yourself?
Arnie: I'm a big boy!
Gilbert: Yeah, you're a big boy. Now take this...
Arnie: Take this.
Gilbert: Wash everything, your towels are there.
Arnie: Okay!
Gilbert: And your robe is there.
Arnie: Okay! The big boy is gonna wash himself!
Becky: I love the sky. It's so limitless.
Gilbert: It is big. It's very big.
Becky: Big doesn't even sum it up, right? That word big is so small.
