What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
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The eldest sibling's movie. Johnny Depp's Gilbert holds his small Iowa family together, and his chief duty is minding his younger brother Arnie, played by a startlingly committed teenage Leonardo DiCaprio, who climbs the town water tower whenever no one is looking.
Lasse Hallström finds plenty of warmth and humor in the exhaustion, and the film is honest that love and resentment can sit in the same chest. Bittersweet rather than bleak.
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