What’s eating Gilbert Grape
Momma You’re so helpful.
Man (On TV) . . .three easy credit card payments of only twenty dollars each. . .
Arnie New ball.
Gilbert Took her delivery.
Arnie Fire!
Gilbert We talked a little bit. And, er, that was it. I dropped her off.
Tucker What’s she doing here?
Gilbert She. . . I don’t know. She’s just sort of here. Their car broke down or something.
Tucker Come on. You. . . I can see in your face that you like her.
Gilbert Can we just not talk about this right now?
Tucker Why not?
Gilbert Let’s change the subject.
Mr Carver . . .you understand?
Doug Carver We want a pool.
Tucker Okay. But you’re telling me later.
Gilbert I’ll tell you everything later.
Bobby Look at those guys out there.
Mr Carver Gilbert.
Gilbert Mm-hm.
Bobby They’re laughing. They’re all happy and waving to their friends. But the next day, and this is the thing they don’t know, they could be. . . lying on the slab. It’s kind of, uh. . . harsh. But it’s kind of fun, too.
Tucker Do you ever, um. . . ?
Bobby What?
Tucker Um. . . Well, you know. . . Are you tempted like. . . to wanna fool around with the bodies?
Gilbert Tucker, come on.
Tucker No, I wanted to ask. I just wanted to ask. I’m sorry. I’m sorry if it makes you uncomfortable.
Bobby No, no. People are very curious about that. No, yeah, I, er. . . The worst thing that we do is we take the bodies, the grotesque ones, the really. . . really ugly ones, and we make, make jokes about them, you know. Harmless jokes. Very harmless jokes, but we come up with some, some very good, good jokes. . .
Mrs Carver Come on, let’s go.
Bobby . . .about them, my father and me. But, but, you know, they’re dead. And uh. . . you know, nobody can see that. Nobody hears anything.
Mrs Carver Hi, boys.
Tucker Hi.
Bobby Hello, Mrs Carver.
Gilbert Hi.
Bobby These jokes don’t hurt anybody. Nobody even knows we make them.
Mr Carver Gilbert, I’m waiting for your call.
Bobby Oh, Mr Carver, er, I, I haven’t seen your mother in church lately. How’s she doing?
Mr Carver Fine. She’s fine.
Bobby Ah, thanks. Bye.
Tucker He wants. . . he wants to kill you, right?
Bobby Er, you prefer a bronze casket?
Tucker Hey. Gilbert. Hey, can somebody give me a hand down here?
Gilbert What?
Tucker Somebody give me a hand with the wood?
Gilbert Hey, Arnie.
Arnie Huh?
Gilbert You wanna go help Tucker?
Arnie Uh-uh.
Gilbert Arnie, go help Tucker in the basement. Arnie. Why don’t you go into the basement and. . .
Arnie I don’t wanna go down there, Gilbert.
Gilbert Please.
Arnie No way, no way, no way. You. Go down there, Gilbert.
Tucker Is there a problem? Gilbert. Hey.
Arnie Dad’s in there. Whooo!
Gilbert Ssh.
Arnie Whoo!
Gilbert Ssh.
Arnie Dad’s in there.
Gilbert Ssh.
Arnie Arghh!
Gilbert Arnie, shut up! Arnie. Shut up. Shut up. Come on. Arnie. It’s not funny. Get back here.
Tucker Don’t worry. Now the two by six’s, you know, there’s six of ’em so. . . you know, those could hold anybody. I for. . . I forgot.
Gilbert What?
Tucker I forgot that that was where your dad. . .
Gilbert Yep.
Tucker I’m. . . I’m sorry.
Gilbert No, it’s okay. Don’t worry about it.
Ellen No, Arnie, no.
Arnie I wanna go up there.
Ellen Arnie, you’re not. Arnie! Not again! Arnie, get down. Get down. Get down! You’re not going anywhere. It’s not too much fun, is it?
Arnie I wanna go there. Ow!
Ellen No! We’re going home! We’re going home.
Arnie Ow!
Gilbert Ellen, no! Stop it. I told you, don’t touch him.
Ellen What am I supposed to do?
Gilbert Don’t ever touch him again.
Ellen He was climbing again.
Gilbert I don’t care. Just get outta here. Just get outta here! Let me see, buddy. Come on, let me see. Let me see. Oh, great. You made him bleed. Now, what does Gilbert say? That if anybody ever hits you, or even just lays a finger on you, what are you gonna do? Arnie? Hm? You’re gonna tell me and then I’m gonna take care of it for you, right? And why will I take care of it?
Arnie Gilbert.
Gilbert Hm?
Arnie ‘Cos you’re Gilbert.
Gilbert ‘Cos I’m Gilbert. Because nobody hurts Arnie, right? Okay. Wanna pick out some candy?
Amy Can I talk to you for a minute?
Gilbert What do you want?
Amy We’ve got to keep a closer eye on him.
Gilbert What?
Amy We’ve gotta do better. Are you listening to me?
Arnie Mine.
Amy And you. . .
Arnie Huh?
Amy You have to stay here. You stay right on this porch. You don’t go anywhere. Don’t go anywhere.
Arnie Don’t go anywhere. We’re not going anywhere, Gilbert. We’re not going anywhere, you know. We’re not going anywhere. We’re not going anywhere. We’re not going. . . we’re not going anywhere. We’re not going anywhere. We’re not going anywhere! Gilbert’s not going anywhere. We’re not going anywhere! We’re not going anywhere. Where you going?
