1. What’s eating Gilbert Grape?
Flim discussion

2. Questions How do you explain the title? What’s ”eating” Gilbert Grape?
What themes are there in this film?
How does society in Endora influence its inhabitants?
Describe Gilbert’s feelings toward Arnie.
Evaluate Gilbert’s mother as a parent.

5. More questions
What does the name of the town tell the viewer about the place?
Loneliness is obviously one of yhe problems in the film. In what characters do we see it most clearly?
Gilbert has two friends in town who are roughly his age. What do they have in common?
Do you find the ending of the story entirely satisfying?