Talk:What's Eating Gilbert Grape

message: Currently the article links to the Atlanta Falcons' former defensive end. However, this is not the same Tim Green-- Obviously the man in the movie's older than thirty! The Mr. Green who played Lamson has an IMDB here: http://imdb.com/name/nm0338375/
Not sure how to correct the problem, I'm not that advanced at editing/creating Wiki, but I thought it deemed mention.
~Morrigan 12.74.196.191 10:46, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tim Green/Mr. Lamson 

message: :Image:What's Eating Gilbert Grape poster.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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BetacommandBot 04:40, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:What's Eating Gilbert Grape poster.jpg

message: It's always bothered me that the plot and many details of this film (and presumably, the book - written in 1991, from which it is drawn) copies too closely the plot of Mario (IMDB info on Mario), a Quebec film from 1984.  Both have the older brother taking care of a mentally-challenged younger brother, both have their summers dominated by the arrival of large numbers of campers, both have the older brother falling in love with a girl in the camper crowd, both have the older brother working in a grocery store, etc...
I've never found any review or commentary on either film that refers to the other.  They are so similar that one seems to be an English language remake of the other.
--Michael Daly (talk) 23:21, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: A bit too late, but an article about the film now exists, see Mario (1984 film), however it makes no mention of this movie, but you are right they seem very similar. Thanks - RandomEditorAAA (talk) 00:58, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too similar to Mario? 

message: I've never heard of this being a comedy before.  All films usually have comic relief, but this one doesn't seem to have any more than usual.  I think American Beauty is hilarious, for example, moreso than most drama films, but it's still labeled as just a drama.  Based on film reviews and the imdb page, I'm going to chnage this to just a drama film unless anyone has objections. Tegrenath (talk) 20:17, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comedy-Drama? 

message: "a notably heartwrenching scene played beautifully by DiCaprio. " I'm removing this immediately. Tenho Karite (talk) 02:45, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wow. POV much? 

message: Why does the link to 1993 on this page go to a page on Queen Elizabeth? 208.100.226.92 (talk) 10:33, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  1993 

message: I've never seen the movie so I can't fix it myself but the summary is pretty poorly written. Some of the sentences don't really make sense to me, because of things like unclear reference or grammatical errors. The summary is also very long. Perhaps it can be cleaned up?
Staticat369 (talk) 03:34, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quality of plot summary? 

message: The plot summary said the father died 17 years prior, but this is not consistent with the timeline. Arnie is about to turn 18 but he has a younger sister. At 1:11 into the film, you can see the father's headstone in the graveyard (Albert Grape), and it says he died 1978-10-13, which would be 14 years prior to the main events in the film, and is consistent with the age of his youngest daughter. 146.115.179.89 (talk) 19:26, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of the Father's Death