What's Eating Gilbert Grape/Tear Jerker

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Tear Jerkers in What's Eating Gilbert Grape include:

  • Oh, my dear goodness, What's Eating Gilbert Grape is one for me. Especially during his early years, director Lasse Hallstrom had tender Tear Jerkers down in spades. Just the depths of the love of this one family, that is the very definition of dysfunctional, and yet is so strong...
  • The part where, on his 18th birthday, Arnie finds the mother and tells her to wake up before realizing his mother is dead. *sniff* That part made me cry uncontrollably. Leonardo DiCaprio ad-libbed that whole scene.
  • Something from the special features of the DVD that caught me by surprise - and made me cry - was the woman who played Bonnie Grape remembering how Johnny Depp (who played Gilbert) coming up to her on set, shaken, to ask her forgiveness for having to say (in the movie) all these horrible things about her character's - and her - morbid obesity.
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