Endora is a small town that the Grape family calls home, and the place where Gilbert Grape is given the responsibility of taking care of the house and his autistic brother Arnie. They have two sisters: Amy, who is the oldest, helps in the kitchen to keep food on the table, while Ellen, who just turned fifteen, keeps a low income job to help pay the bills. Their mother Bonnie is morbidly obese, as a result of her depression following their father committing suicide, and is unable to properly take care of them; she has not left the house in seven years. Taking care of Arnie is no easy task, because whenever he gets the chance he runs off and climbs the town water tower, endangering his life and scaring the town, along with his family. Despite
