{"product_id":"whats-eating-gilbert-grape-dvd","title":"What's Eating Gilbert Grape [DVD]","description":"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 Hallstr??m (\"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 \u0026amp; Joon\", \"Donnie Brasco\"--have made him one of the most interesting, unpredictable, and risk-taking young actors in American movies. \"--Jim Emerson\"\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B00005Q79A\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.B00005Q79A.N\u003cbr\u003eCondition: New\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Johnny Depp|Leonardo DiCaprio|Juliette Lewis|Mary Steenburgen|Darlene Cates|Laura Harrington|Mary Kate Schellhardt|Kevin Tighe|John C. Reilly|Crispin Glover|Penelope Branning|Tim Green|Lasse Hallstrm|Peter Hedges\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Dvd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41524266991674,"sku":"DBV.B00005Q79A.N","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/B00005Q79A-0.jpg?v=1784085964","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/whats-eating-gilbert-grape-dvd","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}