“What's Eating Gilbert Grape” quotes
(1993)
Lasse Hallström
directed this movie
in 1993
Title What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Year 1993
Director Lasse Hallström
Genre Drama
Year 1993
Director Lasse Hallström
Genre Drama
Plot – Gilbert has no future in the small and boring town of Endora, especially because both his brother and his mother are disabled. Despite all the struggles he has to face, Gilbert is limited, nearly disabled too, but with the help of a wandering traveler he will open up his mind again.
All actors – 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, Susan Loughran, Robert B. Hedges, Mark Jordan, Cameron Finley, Brady Coleman, Tim Simek, Nicholas Stojanovich, Libby Villari, Kay Bower, Joe Stevens, Mona Lee Fultz, George Haynes, Daniel Gullahorn, David H. Kramer, Drew Ebersole, Paulette Rubinstein, Peter Fernandez, Mary Griffin, Jason Pace, Shelly Latham, Deborah Lee Johnson, Steve Cook, Patrick Welsh, Brent Bratton, Kirk Hunter, Buck Reynolds, David Stanford
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“- Gilbert: Did you ever see a beached whale on television?
- Becky: Yeah.
- Gilbert: Yeah. That's her. That's my mom.
- Becky: [pauses] What about your dad?
- Gilbert: Uh, some other day. Some other day.”“I'm having a birthday party, but you're not invited, but you can come if you want.”
“Sunshine? Where's my sunshine?”
“- Tucker: Hey, get... Get outta here.
- Boy: I saw her! I saw her, I saw her!
- Tucker: That wasn't nice.
- Gilbert: What? What'd I do?
- Tucker: You know what you did.
- Gilbert: Oh.
- Tucker: That's your mother in there. Your mother.”“- Gilbert: Arnie, eat some chicken.
- Arnie: I don't, I don't want any chicken, Gilbert.
- Gilbert: You want some corn?
- Arnie: I w... I want some corn.
- Gilbert: Have some corn. Here.
- Arnie: Huh.
- Gilbert: Good?
- Arnie: Mm-mm. Not good corn. Gilbert?
- Gilbert: Hmm.
- Arnie: Are they gonna come soon? 'Cos I gotta go back home, you know.
-...” (continue)(continue reading)“Gilbert, it's the Burger Barn! It's the Burger Barn, Gilbert, the Burger Barn! ”
“Six days to my party and I'm come eighteen. I'm eighteen and you're not invited.”
“- Tucker: How's momma?
- Gilbert: She's fat.
- Tucker: Come on, man. She's not all that big, Gilbert.
- Gilbert: What?
- Tucker: Listen, I saw a guy at the state fair who was... a little bit bigger.
- Gilbert: A little bit bigger?
- Tucker: Look, all I'm sayin' is that she's not the biggest I ever seen, okay?
- Gilbert: Tucker, she's a whale!
-...” (continue)(continue reading)“Endora. Endora's where we are. Describing Endora is like dancing to no music. It's a town where nothing much ever happens, and nothing much ever will. Lamson Grocery is where I work. And miles out of town on the interstate there's Foodland... where everyone else shops. This is where I live with my family. My dad built the house. It's my job to...” (continue)(continue reading)
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