A film based on Tobias Wolff's much-praised autobiography about his troubled youth. Caroline Wolff, divorced and with no job prospects, takes her son Toby on an aimless journey across 1950s America. They stop for a while in several towns, where Caroline gets involved with different men, but they always end up back on the road, .. Read more
| Starring | Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Blechman |
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| Director | Michael Caton-Jones |
| Genres | Drama |
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) After his breakthrough role in This Boy’s Life starring alongside Robert De Niro, Di Caprio swiftly followed the success with What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. Aged just 19, he was nominated for his first Oscar, playing disabled boy Arnie, the younger brother to Johnny Depp’s suffering Gilbert. Find out more The Basketball Diaries (1995) DiCaprio took the lead role in this self-penned teenage diary, based on musician Jim Carroll life struggles... Read more
Call it “’Shut Out Island’. Originally scheduled to open in the US at the end of last year, the release of Martin Scorsese’s gothic thriller was pushed back to February by Paramount Pictures, taking the movie out of Oscar consideration. (Technically it’s eligible for next year, but that’s about as likely as Paris Hilton winning best actress.) What were they thinking? Granted, Shutter Island is not conventional Oscar-bait – horror rarely appeals to the... Read more
Leonardo DiCaprio aspires to greatness. Most actors dream the dream, but Leo lives it. Sure, he's been lucky. Since the billion dollar bonanza Titanic, he hasn't had to worry about anything so mundane as proving his box-office worth. He commands top dollar, no matter that he hasn't appeared in a bone fide blockbuster since. If James Cameron's movie had turned out to be the disaster some Twentieth Century Fox executives feared it was going to be, you can be sure his filmography would look very... Read more
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