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What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
1993
*****
Director: Lasse Hallström
Cast: Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mary Steenburgen

In a small town of Endora, Iowa Gilbert Grape lives with his unusual family which includes an insanely overweight mother and a mentally challenged younger brother. Gilbert himself delivers groceries to a horny housewife but finds himself attracted to a young woman passing through the town. Lasse Hallström's moodpiece is pretty much plotless but utterly charming. Young Leonardo DiCaprio gives an excellent performance as Gilbert's brother. Peter Hedges adapted his own novel.