What's Eating Gilbert Grape is a 1993 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Lasse Hallström, and starring Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, Mary Steenburgen, Leonardo DiCaprio, John C. Reilly and Darlene Cates. It follows a grocery store clerk, living with his dysfunctional family including his morbidly obese mother, his mentally disabled younger brother and two sisters, in the fictional rural town of Endora, Iowa.