What’s eating Gilbert Grape

Gilbert No, it’s your husband. He wants me to come to his office right now.

Mrs Carver If you walk out that door. . . don’t you dare walk out that door.

Mr Carver You look nervous, Gilbert. I’d be nervous too, if I were you. If I were in your situation, I’d be downright panicky. I reviewed your file. You’ve got no major medical insurance. No catastrophic. No life. Gilbert. . . what if something were to happen to you? Something. . . unforeseeable. Something. . . sudden, random. And accident, maybe. What about your family? Do you ever think about your family? Stop thinking about yourself, think about them. You don’t wanna leave them empty-handed. Ken Carver here. Oh, look, can’t this wait? I’m in the middle. . . Look, Betty, please, calm down. Calm down. No, no, I. . . Don’t go on. Go on, go on. No. No. Uh. . . Uh-huh. No, no. Calm. . . I’ll. . . I’m on my way. Troubles at home. I’m sure you understand. Oh, damn. Betty’s got the car. Gilbert, would you give me a ride? Oh, my God! Betty, what the hell’s going on here? Todd, Doug! Betty, what is going on here? I don’t believe this. Oh, great! Oh, cookies. Boys, come on, let’s. . . Let’s go show your mom the cookies that she’s baked for us. This is great. All right. Everything’s okay. Look, honey, they’re fine. They taste fine. A little burnt on top, but just fine. They’re wonderful. Boys, here, have some of Mom’s cookies. They’re really good. Here, come on, boys. Make your mother happy. Make your mom happy, have some cookies. Please, please, have some.

Mrs Carver Hey. I could’ve had any guy. Any guy. But. . .

Mr Carver Doug, come over here.

Mrs Carver I chose you.

Mr Carver It is a pool, son.

Mrs Carver I chose you.

Mr Carver I got you a real pool for God’s sake. Look, there’s water in here. Come here, come here. Come here. Get inside the pool. Get inside this pool with your brother. Come here.

Gilbert Why did you?

Mr Carver Get inside the pool. Yeah, look, real water, boys. Okay, so. . . so I don’t, don’t give everything.

Mrs Carver Because. . .

Mr Carver But God, I give you all I have, for Christ’s sake.

Mrs Carver . . .I knew you’d always be there. Because. . . because I knew you’d never leave.

Mr Carver What the hell else more do you want? What? For God’s sake! Son, get back in the pool. Get back in the pool. We’re all gonna enjoy it. It’s a lot of fun, isn’t it? I’m doing the best I can here. I can’t do any better. I can’t give any more. I’ve given enough already.

Man on TV I, I, I guess maybe I’d better be getting off.

Woman on TV No, not yet.

Amy Arnie.

Momma Move, Amy.

Woman on TV All my life I’ll wonder. . . ‘Where is he?’ Where, just this moment, just now? What is he looking at? What is he thinking?

Amy I think it’s time for Arnie to take a bath.

Arnie No.

Momma Ssh.

Amy Don’t you think it’s time for Arnie to take a bath, Gilbert?

Gilbert Just let him stink.

Arnie I don’t wanna take a bath, no.

Ellen You know Mr Carver?

Amy Ssh.

Ellen Well, he’s dead.

Arnie Dead.

Woman Okay, kids, hurry up. Let’s go.

Tucker Hey.

Gilbert Hey.

Officer 1 See anything under there?

Officer 2 No.

Officer 1 Check that.

Gilbert What’s going on?

Tucker He drowned.

Gilbert You’re kidding?

Tucker No. In that.

Gilbert Oh.

Tucker A kiddy pool. I don’t get it.

Gilbert Wow.

Tucker It’s like one foot deep. Weird, right?

Gilbert Yeah.

Arnie He drownded!

Gilbert Ssh, ssh, ssh, ssh. Come on. Hey, ssh, ssh, ssh, ssh, ssh, ssh.

Bobby He had the cardiac arrest. . . his head bent forward, his knees buckled, and then he just. . . fell. . . face forward into the pool. When she found him he was already dead.

Tucker That’s what we don’t know. That’s what nobody knows.

Bobby No, I know it. I would. . .

Tucker And how. . . ?

Bobby I saw the. . . I saw the body. I saw the. . . I prepared it. I know what exactly. . . I would have seen. . . I would have seen what. . .

Tucker You…

Bobby . . .if there was any kind of struggle that had gone on.

Tucker It was murder.

Bobby No.

Tucker What do you think? What do you think?

Gilbert I, uh. . . I don’t know. I, uh. . . you know, it’s, it’s possible

Tucker Bob, we’re talking about thousands and thousands of dollars.

Bobby If she saw. . .

Tucker She doesn’t have to work.

Bobby Even if she did want to do it. . .

Tucker She doesn’t have to work for the rest of her life.

Bobby Even if she did. . . She. . . If, if you saw somebody laying with their head down in a pool, motionless. . . Or even if they were kind of limply doing that, which he wasn’t doing. But even if they. . .

Tucker How do you know that?

Bobby Well, it, he, it was an extreme, er, postcardial infarction. Extreme.

Tucker So nothing’s fishy?

Bobby N. . . no!

Tucker Nothing about this is. . .

Arnie Hey, Gilbert, look it’s that girl! Gilbert, that girl!

Bobby It’s perfectly logical, even if it’s. . . Wait a minute. Tucker, if you. . .

Tucker No. We’re not talking about taking a gun. . .

Bobby If she was. . .

Arnie Hi.

Becky Hi. Hi, Arnie.

Arnie Hi. Please, please, play with me over there.