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ON BEING DIFFERENT

Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was Lasse Hallström's

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

with Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis and others in a great ensemble. Mary Steenburgen. John C. Reilly.

This is the uber dysfunctional family but they don't see it that way. Except when they do.

That is not the point so much as the small, small town pieces and the characters interplay.

Magic.

Did I mention that it has Johnny Depp in it?

This is one of my favorite movies. Hallström is a great director. I have liked all his films. My Life as a Dog.

This is, as far as I can tell, the last best performance of DiCaprio before he went into the big star mode.

I will give it a 5 out of Netflix5.

The first 5 in a long time.

Labels: best films