If possible, I would give the movie What's Eating Gilbert Grape? 5+ stars. At first when I heard the name, I immediately thought it was going to be a lame kids movie. I was wrong.
The Academy Award and Golden Globe nominated film from 1993 stars Johnny Depp as Gilbert Grape and Leonardo DiCaprio as his mentally challenged younger brother, Arnie. This is a touching story of Gilbert's inner struggles to find what he wants in life. He has to act as a father figure to Arnie, taking care of everything that Arnie can't do. He also looks over his typical teenage sister and helps out his other sister who acts as a mom. His real mom, 500 pound Mama, sits on the couch feeling sorry for herself and growing fatter and fatter every day. The family tries to protect her from the people of their small town, who venture out to their house and make fun of Mama. He goes grocery shopping for the family, fixes the house that is getting too weak to hold Mama, and pretty regularly coaxes Arnie down from the town water tower. He lives a boring life until he meets a girl, who changed his life and causes him to question what exactly he wants in life.
This film, although slightly predictable, is not great because of their odd problems, but because of how they deal with them throughout their life.
I like how you admitted how the movie is a little predictable. This is a really good review I like the way you write
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