What's eating Gilbert Grape? /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:Special collector's ed.
Imprint:Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Pictures, [2006]
Description:1 videodisc (ca. 128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language:English
Subject:Families -- Drama.
Brothers -- Drama.
Teenagers with mental disabilities -- Drama.
Teenagers with mental disabilities.
Families.
Brothers.
Feature films.
Romantic comedy films.
Family -- Feature.
Romance -- Feature.
Comedy -- Feature.
Comedy films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Romantic comedy films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Film adaptations.
Comedy films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Format: DVD Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6364261
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:Hallström, Lasse.
Depp, Johnny.
Lewis, Juliette.
Steenburgen, Mary.
Parker, Alan.
Isfält, Björn.
Paramount Pictures Corporation.
ISBN:1415718717
9781415718711
Notes:Title from container.
Based on the novel by Peter Hedges.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1993.
Special features: Commentary by director Lasse Hallström and writer Peter Hedges; The characters of Gilbert Grape; The voice of Gilbert Grape; Why we love Gilbert Grape; Original theatrical trailer; Photo gallery.
Director of photography, Sven Nykvist ; editor, Andrew Mondshein ; original music, Alan Parker, Björn Isfält ; production designer, Bernt Capra.
Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, Mary Steenburgen, Leonardo DiCaprio, John C. Reilly, Darlene Cates.
DVD, region 1, widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo., NTSC.
Closed-captioned.
Summary:Gilbert lives in Endora, a place where nothing happens. Aside from a secret affair with a housewife, Gilbert spends his days stocking shelves at a grocery store, caring for his mentally handicapped brother, and holding together a large family headed by Mama, a former beauty queen whose weight tops 500 pounds. But just when Gilbert thinks nothing with ever change, a pretty stranger arrives on the scene, capturing Gilbert's heart and inspiring him to make a break.
Target Audience:MPAA rating: PG-13; for elements of mature subject matter.
Standard no.:097360421248
Publisher's no.:042124 Paramount Pictures
04212 Paramount Pictures
Description
Summary:Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom's follow-up to the underrated Once Around earned far more attention than its predecessor thanks to the judicious casting of perennial thinking woman's heartthrob Johnny Depp and a certain up-and-coming thespian by the name of Leonardo DiCaprio. A prisoner of his dysfunctional family's broken dreams in tiny Endora, IA, Gilbert (Depp) serves as breadwinner and caretaker for his mother and siblings following his father's suicide and his older brother's defection. Momma (Darlene Cates) is a morbidly obese shut-in who hasn't left the house in seven years; her children include retarded Arnie (DiCaprio), who's about to turn 18 despite a host of negative medical forecasts, and terminally embarrassed Ellen (Mary Kate Schellhardt), who's emerging from an awkward adolescence. When he's not taking care of the difficult but tender Arnie, Gilbert spends his time fixing up the family's tattered farmhouse, working at a failing mom-and-pop grocery store and hanging with local misfits Bobby (Crispin Glover), an overly ambitious junior undertaker, and Tucker (John C. Reilly), a handyman who hankers after a job at the new burger franchise. Into this complicated but essentially unchanging social universe steps Becky (Juliette Lewis), a thoughtful young woman who's been escorting her nomadic grandmother from state to state in a mobile-home caravan. As Becky teaches Gilbert to finally consider his own happiness for a change, she disrupts both his family obligations and his long-running affair with a lonely housewife (Mary Steenburgen). Adapted by Peter Hedges from his own novel of the same name, What's Eating Gilbert Grape was the first and only film role for non-actress Cates, whom the filmmakers discovered on an episode of the Sally Jesse Raphael Show titled "Too Heavy to Leave Their House." ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi
Item Description:Title from container.
Based on the novel by Peter Hedges.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1993.
Special features: Commentary by director Lasse Hallström and writer Peter Hedges; The characters of Gilbert Grape; The voice of Gilbert Grape; Why we love Gilbert Grape; Original theatrical trailer; Photo gallery.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (ca. 128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD, region 1, widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo., NTSC.
Audience:MPAA rating: PG-13; for elements of mature subject matter.
Production Credits:Director of photography, Sven Nykvist ; editor, Andrew Mondshein ; original music, Alan Parker, Björn Isfält ; production designer, Bernt Capra.
ISBN:1415718717
9781415718711