What grows Gilbert Grape? Hedes P.

The debut novel of the cult American writer and screenwriter Peter Hedes, the basis of the film of the same name by Lass Halstrom (Abba, Winemakers, Chocolate, Hachiko) with Johnny Depp and Leonard DiCaprio in the main roles; For the role of Arnie Grape, the young diCaprio received his first nomination for Oscar, and the legendary Sven Nyukvist, the permanent operator of Ingmara Bergman, acted as the operator of the picture. The twenty -four -year -old Gilbert Grape works as a seller in a grocery shop and lives in the city of Endora, Iowa (the population - 1091 people), where he is staring about everything. He would be glad to leave somewhere, but at home he will be held by an unbearable (literally) mother, and the younger brother with development problems, and a sister who still mourning the death of Elvis, and a longtime romance with a woman older than him. And then one day a mysterious beauty comes to Endora on the summer holidays, who, rolling around the city on a bicycle, circles the heads of all the guys and will turn the world of Gilbert upside down... “The fresh, sincere romance of growing up - and at the same time, elegia to losers and outsiders rendering On the side of the American dream. Like David Lynch’s film, decorated with our local artists-preimivists ”(The New York Times).