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Gilbert grape

"Just about everything in Endora, Iowa (pop. 1,091 and dwindling) is eating Gilbert Grape, a twenty-four-year-old grocery clerk who dreams only of leaving. His enormous mother, once the town sweetheart, has been eating nonstop ever since her husband's suicide, and the floor beneath her TV chair is threatening to cave in. Gilbert's long-suffering older sister, Amy, still mourns the death of Elvis, and his knockout younger sister has become hooked on makeup, boys, and Jesus--in that order. But the biggest event on the horizon for all the Grapes is the eighteenth birthday of Gilbert's younger brother, Arnie, who is a living miracle just for having survived so long. As the Grapes gather in Endora, a mysterious beauty glides through town on a bicycle and rides circles around Gilbert, until he begins to see a new vision of his family and himself"--Page 2 of cover.

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  • ""Just about everything in Endora, Iowa (pop. 1,091 and dwindling) is eating Gilbert Grape, a twenty-four-year-old grocery clerk who dreams only of leaving. His enormous mother, once the town sweetheart, has been eating nonstop ever since her husband's suicide, and the floor beneath her TV chair is threatening to cave in. Gilbert's long-suffering older sister, Amy, still mourns the death of Elvis, and his knockout younger sister has become hooked on makeup, boys, and Jesus--in that order. But the biggest event on the horizon for all the Grapes is the eighteenth birthday of Gilbert's younger brother, Arnie, who is a living miracle just for having survived so long. As the Grapes gather in Endora, a mysterious beauty glides through town on a bicycle and rides circles around Gilbert, until he begins to see a new vision of his family and himself"--Page 2 of cover."@en
  • "Gilbert Grape lives in Endora, a place where nothing much happens. The only times the police got something to do is when Gilbert's retarded brother Arnie tries to climb up on the watertower nearby. Taking care of Arnie is mostly Gilbert's task which can be pretty demanding, at least while you are working at the local grocery store. Then one day Becky and her grandmother passes through Endora getting trouble with the car. Gilbert falls in love with Becky, but gets problems when he tries to find time for his own private life.--Lars J. Aas."@en
  • "The coming-of-age of a 24-year-old grocery clerk who has spent his entire life in an Iowa town with a population of 1091."
  • "Adapted into the classic 1993 film starring Johnny Depp as Gilbert and Leonardo DiCaprio in his Academy Award nominated role as Arnie, What's Eating Gilbert Grape is the touching and entertaining story of an unusual family that rises up to do the astonishing Gilbert Grape is a 24-year-old grocery store clerk stuck in Endora, Iowa, where the population is 1,091 and shrinking. After the suicide of Gilbert's father, his family never recovered. Once the town beauty queen, Gilbert's mother is morbidly obese after seven years of house-bound depression; his younger sister is boy-crazy and God-fearing, while his older sister sacrifices everything for her family. And then there's Arnie, Gilbert's younger brother with special needs. With no one else to care for Arnie, Gilbert becomes his brother's main parent, and all four siblings must tend to the needs of their helpless, grieving mother. So Gilbert is in a rut until an enchanting new girl arrives in town. His family gathers for Arnie's 18th birthday and Becky, the mysterious and lovely newcomer, breathes new life into Gilbert's world. But can one person really change Gilbert, or his attitudes about his family and Endora? Rich with memorable characters, biting frustration, and family redemption, What's Eating Gilbert Grape can't be missed."@en
  • ""Just about everything in Endora, Iowa (pop. 1091 and dwindling), is eating Gilbert Grape, a twenty-four-year-old grocery clerk who dreams only of leaving"--Page 4 of cover."@en
  • "This is the movie that Leonardo DiCaprio received an Oscar nomination for, five years before Titanic. And, in fact, this is the movie that should have made him a star, he's so good in it. Based on the novel by Peter Hedges (who adapted his own book) and directed by Lasse Hallström (My Life as a Dog), this is the funny, moody tale of a young man named Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) who lives at home in a small town with his 500-pound Momma (beautifully played by nonpro Darlene Cates), his mentally retarded younger brother Arnie (DiCaprio, utterly convincing), and his sisters. Not a lot happens--Arnie keeps climbing a water tower and getting stuck; Gilbert is involved with a married woman (Mary Steenburgen), then meets a nice new girl in town who's closer to his age (Juliette Lewis). And that's exactly what makes this movie so much more than your run-of-the-mill Hollywood product: it's not about some mechanical, formulaic plot; it's about these characters, and it allows you to spend some time with them and get to know them. Depp may have started out as a TV teen idol on 21 Jump Street, but his feature film choices since then--in such wonderfully offbeat and diverse movies as Cry-Baby, Edward Scissorhands, Benny & Joon, Donnie Brasco--have made him one of the most interesting, unpredictable, and risk-taking young actors in American movies."@en
  • "Just about everything in Endora, Iowa (pop. 1,091 and dwindling) is eating Gilbert Grape, a twenty-four-year-old grocery clerk who dreams only of leaving. His enormous mother, once the town sweetheart, has been eating nonstop ever since her husband's suicide, and the floor beneath her TV chair is threatening to cave in. Gilbert's long-suffering older sister, Amy, still mourns the death of Elvis, and his knockout younger sister has become hooked on makeup, boys, and Jesus-in that order. But the biggest event on the horizon for all the Grapes is the eighteenth birthday of Gilbert's younger brother, Arnie, who is a living miracle just for having survived so long. As the Grapes gather in Endora, a mysterious beauty glides through town on a bicycle and rides circles around Gilbert, until he begins to see a new vision of his family and himself. With this wry portrait of small-town Iowa and a young man's life at the crossroads, Peter Hedges created a classic American novel charged with sardonic intelligence. (Washington Post Book World)."@en
  • "Press kit includes production information, brief synopsis about the cast and filmmakers and credits."@en

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  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "A quién ama Gilbert Grape?"
  • "What's eating Gilbert Grape (Pel·lícula cinematrogràfica)"
  • "Co gryzie Gilberta Grape'a"
  • "Co gryzie Gilberta Grape'a"@pl
  • "WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE"
  • "Gilbert grape"@en
  • "A quien ama Gilbert Grape?"
  • "Nuga Gilbŏt'ŭ Gŭreip'ŭ rŭl ch'ojo hage hanŭng̕a"
  • "What's eating Gilbert Grape?"
  • "What's eating Gilbert Grape?"@en
  • "What's eating Gilbert Grape? : a novel"
  • "Gilbert Grape : [screenplay]"@en
  • "누가길버트그레이프를초조하게하는가"
  • "What's eating Gilbert Grape"@sv
  • "What's eating Gilbert Grape"@en
  • "What's eating Gilbert Grape"
  • "Gilbert Grape"
  • "Gilbert Grape"@en
  • "Gilbert Grape"@fi
  • "What's Eating Gilbert Grape"@en
  • "¿A quién ama Gilbert Grape?"@es
  • "¿A quién ama Gilbert Grape?"
  • "Gilbert Grape, irgendwo in Iowa Roman"
  • "What's eating Gilbert Grape : [press kit]"@en

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