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Bonnie, the mother, dies. To avoid further ridicule, the kids burn the house with her body. Gilbert and Arnie leave Endora with Becky and her grandmother.
In a fictional town called Endora, most likely in Iowa. (His sister gets a job in Des Moines). The story is set around the time the movie was shot (cf. the products on the shelves in the grocery). The headstone of Gilbert's father, Albert Grape, notes 1978 as his dying year.
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