This film I chose was “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?” It depicts Leonardo DiCaprio as a 17-year-old boy with a developmental disability named Arnie. He along with his older brother/caretaker Gilbert, two sisters, and his morbidly obese mother live in a small town in Iowa. He was well- known in town for his various stunts he pulls such as climbing up the water tower. Arnie likes to play games with his siblings like hiding in a tree and trying to make them find him. He shows his handicap in various ways during the movie. Arnie has random outbursts of yelling or repeating other people’s statements repeatedly. He is unable to bathe himself and when Gilbert tries to make him, Arnie ends up spending the night in the bathtub, unsure of what to do.
