One of the controversies regarding the family is the application of the concept of social justice to the private sphere of family relations, in particular with regard to the rights of women and children.
I told you it was kind of a dark period, Depp continued. 'No, I will not give you a drag of my cigarette while you hide from your mother again, Leo.'. Leonardo DiCaprio and Johnny Depp attend the screening of 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' in 1993. Depp played the title character and was 30 years old while making the film, based on Peter Hedges' book of the same name. DiCaprio, then 19, earned rave reviews for his role as disabled teen Arnie Grape.
Centred around the Grape family Ellen and Amy and their two brothers Arnie and Gilbert, who, along with their morbidly obese widowed mother Bonnie Grape are striving to survive and coexist with the absence of a father figure, low wage work and seventeen-year-old Arnie's severe mental condition.