First, the good part. There is a 20 second clip of an architecturally interesting courthouse. The rest of the show is either boring or unbearably depressing. The first 60 minutes of the show took at least 3 hours. If I had been by myself, I would have walked out after 30 minutes tops. I felt the movie actually get worse as it went along.

Let me see if it is possible to chronicle some of the things I hated about this movie. Depp slept through it. [Wish I had!] He was clearly under heavy sedation at all times. He reminded the audience again and again about how lovely his mother used to be before she got to be a "beached whale" as he described her. He would take the local kids over to see his mother from a window like a barker at a side show. What a great kid!

A lot of the movie was devoted to the boy with a body of an 18 year old but the mind of a 3 year old and whether he would live to see his next birthday. The way it was handled ranged from fairly depressing to very depressing.

I did not care about any of the characters and got to hoping for a swarm of locus to sweep the plains and kill them all off so we could get a fresh set of actors. Sad to report that no such swarm appeared.

WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE runs an exhausting 1:58 due to sloppy editing by Andrew Mondshein. It is rated PG-13. For an excellent job of acting by DiCaprio I generously award the show one half of a star, give it a big thumbs down. People who suffering from depression should have their medication close by if they do decide to see it.