While they are distracted during one of their talks, Arnie returns to the water tower he is forever trying to climb. Becky becomes close to both Gilbert and Arnie. His affair with Betty ends when she leaves town in search of a new life following her husband's death-he drowned in the family's wading pool after suffering a heart attack. He returns home late and finds that Arnie is still in the bath the following morning, shivering in the now-cold water his guilt is compounded by his family's anger. In order to spend time with Becky to watch the sunset, Gilbert leaves Arnie alone in the bath. Gilbert's unusual life circumstances threaten to get in the way of their budding romance. A young woman named Becky (Juliette Lewis) and her grandmother are stuck in town when the International Harvester Travelall pulling their trailer breaks down. The family is looking forward to Arnie's 18th birthday. In addition, Gilbert is having an affair with a married woman, Betty Carver (Mary Steenburgen). A new FoodLand supermarket has opened, threatening the small Lamson's Grocery where Gilbert works. The relationship between the brothers is of both care and protection, as Gilbert continually enforces the "nobody touches Arnie" policy. With Bonnie unable to care for her children on her own due to her morbid obesity, Gilbert has taken responsibility for repairing the old house and looking after Arnie, who has a habit of climbing the town water tower, while his sisters Amy (Laura Harrington) and Ellen (Mary Kate Schellhardt) do the rest. She spends almost all of her time on the couch watching TV and eating. His mother, Bonnie (Darlene Cates), gave up on life after her husband hanged himself in the basement 17 years earlier. In the small town of Endora, Iowa, Gilbert Grape is busy caring for Arnie, his brother with a developmental disability, as they wait for the many tourists' trailers to pass through town during an annual Airstreamer's Club gathering at a nearby recreational area. What's Eating Gilbert Grape is a 1993 American drama film.Īfter his father's death, Gilbert has to care for his mentally disabled brother, Arnie, and his morbidly obese mother, which is suddenly challenged when love walks into his life.
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