What’s eating Gilbert Grape
Amy Gilbert, will you bring the milk.
Arnie I miss Momma.
Momma Good boy.
Arnie Disappear like that.
Momma Good boy.
Arnie Food.
Amy Are we ready to talk about the party?
Momma Sure.
Ellen I’m ready.
Amy Ellen’s in charge of decorations.
Ellen Get this – purple, orange and green.
Momma Sounds good.
Ellen Theme colours.
Amy Okay.
Momma That sounds pretty good.
Amy I’m doing the food, the cake.
Momma Okay.
Amy Arnie, I’m making something very special for you. And, er, Momma you can supervise everything. Okay with everybody?
Ellen That’s disgusting.
Momma Sounds good.
Arnie What about me?
Amy You are the guest of honour. How about that?
Arnie Gilbert, what about me? My party. It’s my party. What about me?
Gilbert You just show up, buddy. That’s your job.
Momma All you have to do is show up.
Amy You don’t have to do anything. All you have to do is turn eighteen.
Ellen You know, that just leaves Gilbert.
Gilbert Huh?
Ellen You’re the only one without anything to do. Got any ideas?
Amy Sure he does.
Gilbert No, I don’t. No, I don’t.
Amy Yes, you do.
Ellen I’m almost sixteen and I got pages of ideas.
Momma Ellen.
Ellen She designed a whole cake, and you haven’t done anything.
Momma Stop it, Ellen.
Amy Can it.
Gilbert Can I be excused?
Ellen He never does anything. No.
Momma Please, can’t we just do something as a family?
Ellen No fair, Momma!
Gilbert Can I please be excused?
Amy, Momma & Ellen (all talking at once)
Arnie My party though!
Momma Is that too much to ask?
Tucker So it’s gonna be an exact copy of the one. . . the original they built in Boone.
Gilbert Really?
Tucker Which is no big dead, Gilbert, ‘cos they’re all. . . All Burger Barns are built identical. They’re prefabricated. They just ship ’em out. I mean, it’s so efficient, it’s amazing. In a matter of a couple of days, there’s gonna be a whole new restaurant there. So, I was driving past the building site today. You know, it’s going up right next to. . . right down the road from Foodland. The general manager was there. So I says, “Can I fill out an application?” He said, “You bet you can.” So I did, you know, and it looks really good. I mean, I’m happy wearing one of them uniforms and flipping some burgers, salting some fries. You never know, could be the best thing that ever happened to me. Hey, get. . . Get outta here.
Boy I saw her! I saw her, I saw her!
Tucker That wasn’t nice.
Gilbert What? What’d I do?
Tucker You know what you did.
Gilbert Oh.
Tucker That’s your mother in there. Your mother.
Gilbert I know.
Tucker I don’t get you man. I just don’t get it.
Gilbert Let’s go, buddy.
Arnie Okay.
Gilbert Come on.
Arnie Gilbert, run now! Run! Bye-bye, Momma. Bye-bye.
Momma Night you guys. Move Amy.
Arnie Gilbert is shrinking. Shrinking, shrinking, shrinking, shrinking. I’m not tired yet, Gilbert.
Gilbert Well, you gotta go to sleep, okay?
Arnie Okay. Goodbye.
Gilbert No, it’s not goodbye. It’s good night.
Arnie Yeah.
Gilbert Goodbye is for when you’re going away and we’re not going anywhere, are we?
Arnie I know that. I know that, Gilbert.
Gilbert See you tomorrow.
Arnie We’re not going anywhere! Goodbye!
Gilbert Arnie.
Tucker You gotta work later?
Gilbert Yeah I do.
Woman Hi, boys. Hi, Arnie.
Arnie Hiya, ladies.
Gilbert Gotta come back.
Tucker How’s Momma?
Gilbert She’s fat.
Tucker Come on, man. She’s not all that big, Gilbert.
Gilbert What?
Tucker Listen, I saw a guy at the state fair who was. . . a little bit bigger.
Gilbert A little bit bigger?
Tucker Look, all I’m saying is she’s not the biggest I’ve ever seen.
Gilbert Tucker, she’s a whale.
Tucker Well, take her out for a walk once in a while.
Gilbert Take her out for a jog.
Tucker Get her out of the house.
Gilbert Hey, Bobby. Bobby!
Tucker Give her a chance, that’s all I’m saying.
Gilbert I know. How’s business?
