What’s Eating Gilbert Grape

Movie • 1993 • Drama  

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This movie contains 23 potentially triggering events.
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Does an animal die?
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KathyT154
A cricket

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Waxlady
A bug is beheaded by Arnie
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Nylah_jp
Nothing graphic it was a cricket, but Arnie seemed very upset over it.
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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There is a grasshopper shown briefly at the start of the movie
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Waxlady
The older brother (Gilbert) beats up the younger brother (Arnie)
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Ouchies2
In one scene Gilbert becomes frustrated trying to get Arnie to have a bath and roughly drags and slaps him.
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missevil399
Food addiction, cigarette smoking
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Sid
Arnie is restrained by his siblings when he sees something upsetting and begins to harm himself
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crunchy_viking
a character drowns but it is not shown
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Waxlady
Arnie squashes a bug's head (the actual act isn't shown though)
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SERENITY
They set fire to a house with a dead woman inside. But she is already dead.
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Nylah_jp
Arnie gets a cut on his wrist after Ellen drags him across the ground
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Sid
Arnie mimes hanging himself in an impression of his father who committed suicide by that method
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missevil399
*spoilers* Gilbert beats up Arnie
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crunchy_viking
a bug is decapitated
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missevil399
Never shown but they talk about how the character did it.
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Does a kid die?
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FleetwoodMacNCheez
Leonardo DiCaprio portrays an intellectually disabled teen
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Sid
Also Betty’s husband dies and everyone thinks she murdered him
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Nylah_jp
Betty cheats on her husband with Gilbert
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Nylah_jp
There are scenes where Arnie is in the bath, he is shown wearing no shirt but there is no other nudity
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Are there razors?
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Nylah_jp
There are no ghosts but there is a brief scene when Arnie is making ghost noises (which is him imitating his dead father) when he is asked to go help in the basement.
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Nylah_jp
Arnie spits out corn at the start of the film
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Ouchies2
In one scene Gilbert slaps, fights and roughly drags Arnie to try and get him to have a bath.

In another scene he leaves him to have a bath alone while he goes out with a girl and he comes back the next day and Arnie is still in the bath shivering as he needed help. This was not portrayed as malicious but is an upsetting image.
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Nylah_jp
I wouldn't call it a 'anxiety attack' but Arnie is freaking out and hitting his head after his mother dies
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KathyT154
The father hanged himself in the cellar, it‘s mentioned but never shown.
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FleetwoodMacNCheez
Arnie has strong emotional responses to events
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FleetwoodMacNCheez
Gilbert's mother is focused on food and dies from health issues resulting from her weight.
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Anonymous
Arnie purposely hits himself in the head when he’s upset
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RedEyeJedi
Some language throughout and one character flips off another.
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SquiddyKat
Arnie cries after the death of a grass hopper
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Nylah_jp
Gilbert makes hurtful comments about his mother constantly
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missevil399
The family screams at Arnie, and there's ableist behavior from some of the townspeople.
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Nylah_jp
Gilbert occasionally makes fun of his mothers weight.
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Waxlady
Sexual scene when Gilbert delivers groceries
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there BDSM?
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Sid
Arnie has an undisclosed medical condition and wasn’t supposed to live past the age of ten
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FleetwoodMacNCheez
There are characters who live in campers and have a nomadic sort of life but they aren't unhoused in a traditional sense
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SquiddyKat
Yes.
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Waxlady
Woman's husband drowned in a kiddie pool.
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Nylah_jp
Not graphic, Arnie is seen with blood on his face twice but not graphic at all just a few cuts.
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