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Film of the week

What’s eating Gilbert Grape?

Sunday 22nd April, 9.00pm, BBC1

Romantic comedy drama

Starring: Johnny Depp, Leonardo dicaprio, Mary Steenburgen, Juliette Lewis.

Directed by: Lasse Hallstrom

Director Lasse Hallstrom was best known for his famous movie ‘My life as a dog’ (1985) by which he gained an international audience. He was a popular director in his birth country Sweden and is attracted to emotional family related storylines but tries to avoid sentimentality. After directing the famous film ‘The cider house rules’ (1999) he received his second academy award nomination which completely lifted his career. In 2000 he came out with ‘Chocolat’ and this was realistic and truly enchanting for audiences.

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What’s eating Gilbert grape is a film about a man called Gilbert (Depp) who has a younger handicapped 18 year old brother called Arnie (Dicaprio). He also has two younger sisters Amy who is the older one and her job is to cook and clean everything, then there’s the younger one Ellen who’s just the typical teenager. Gilberts father died about eight years ago and ever since then his mother hasn’t stepped foot out of the house and has become severely overweight weighing 500 pounds due to comfort eating. Gilbert is now the father figure of the house and ...

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