A movie called What Is Eating Gilbert Grape is very motivating for me when I do not let it get me depressed.

Never have seen it, but I will keep it in mind......

Dawn, here is a review that I found on Google

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What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) More at IMDbPro »

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What's Eating Gibert Grape is a beautifully shot movie of tenderness, caring and self-awareness that is set amongst the fictional working class one street town Endora. Centred around the Grape family Ellen and Amy and their two brothers Arnie and Gilbert, who, along with their morbidly obese widowed mother Bonnie Grape are striving to survive and coexist with the absence of a father figure, low wage work and seventeen-year-old Arnie's severe mental condition. It is in this awkward and extremely one sided affair that the unfortunate Gilbert has to constantly, while working for the town's slowly dying Convenience Store, take care of his younger brother Arnie. Gilbert's life, his future, is thwarted he know this, but it is in this Guardian Angel that his love and bond for Arnie cannot, and will not, be let go. That is until the free spirit of Becky arrives in town, and with her grandmother are stranded for the week while waiting for parts for their vehicle. This realization unties new feelings, new thoughts and new hope for the put upon Gibert, something new is eating Gilbert Grape. Written by Cinema_Fan

Gilbert Grape lives in Endora, a place where nothing much happens. The only times the police got something to do is when Gilbert's autistic brother Arnie tries to climb up on the watertower nearby. Taking care of Arnie is mostly Gilbert's task which can be pretty demanding, at least while you are working at the local grocery store. Then one day Becky and her grandmother passes through Endora getting trouble with the car. Gilbert falls in love with Becky, but gets problems when he tries to find time for his own private life. Written by Lars J. Aas {[email protected]}

Randy, I have seen the title before -  the movie looks intriguing, but albeit depressing. I am going to check it out and see if I can get it on Amazon (I am sure I can). Hang in there guy, God will open a window or door for you eventually, He did for me and Dave.

It is a good movie.

The movie does deplict fat people as unhappy sloths sitting on the couch all day demanding that their kids make them bacon.

And there is no way that mother would weight that car down as much as she did when she rode in it.

Plus the first time she tried to walk up the stairs in years she died.


But Leonardo DeCap(don't know how to spell it) did a good job playing a special child.

I liked the movie though.

Perhaps to mince your words a bit I thought it portrayed fat people as people who were unhappy because they were  fat and because of being shut out of society.  I also see bacon as health food.  The car, my brother had a car that when he rode in it on the passenger side cut out because that made the filter system  not work right.  Old car needed new shocks.  It motivates me to more accepting of others who are different.