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.
Mom from What's Eating Gilbert Grape Has Lost 250 Pounds. Aug 9, 2012 11:21 AM EDT. Darlene Cates, who played the morbidly obese, bedridden mother of Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio in 1993's What's Eating Gilbert Grape, has lost nearly 250 pounds, and is hoping to start acting again, the Dallas Morning News reports. Cates, 64, weâ¦ Read more.
The movie is about partly about Gilbert, but it also describes life in this town very well. Gilbert's family often has a big impact on the other people in this town, so it's natural that they would be the family that the movie is about. What's also really nice is that Gilbert isn't portrayed as a hero in this movie.