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What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993
· Movie
· 118 min
A
MEANRANK
80/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #615
- IMDb #695
- Google retired #132
- Rotten Tomatoes #575
- Metacritic #995
- Letterboxd #976
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1064
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #608
- Metacritic Critics #1211
- Metacritic Audience #797
- Criticker #786
- Douban #254
- Kinopoisk #377
- AlloCiné #932
- Trakt #638
Every rating
60–96
out of 100
In a small, sleepy town, a young man shouldered with responsibility for his mentally disabled younger brother and morbidly obese mother feels trapped. His routine life of working at a grocery store and caring for his family is disrupted by the arrival of an adventurous young woman passing through, who offers him a glimpse of another way to live.
Details
- Director
- Lasse Hallström
- Writer
- Peter Hedges
- Based on
- a work by Peter Hedges
- Released
- 17 December 1993
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $11.0M
- Box office
- $10.0M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 2 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 5 →3 wins from 5 nominations across 5 ceremonies
| 51st Golden Globe Awards 1993 | Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | Leonardo DiCaprio | Nominee |
| 66th Academy Awards 1993 | Best Supporting Actor | Leonardo DiCaprio | Nominee |
| 1993 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1993 | New Generation Award | Leonardo DiCaprio | Winner |
| 65th National Board of Review Awards 1993 | Best Supporting Actor Award | Leonardo DiCaprio | Winner |
| Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 1993 1993 | Most Promising Young Actor | Leonardo DiCaprio | Winner |
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51st Golden Globe Awards
1 nomination
| Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | Leonardo DiCaprio | Nominee |
66th Academy Awards
1 nomination
| Best Supporting Actor | Leonardo DiCaprio | Nominee |
1993 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| New Generation Award | Leonardo DiCaprio | Winner |
65th National Board of Review Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Supporting Actor Award | Leonardo DiCaprio | Winner |
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 1993
1 nomination, 1 won
| Most Promising Young Actor | Leonardo DiCaprio | Winner |