What's Eating Gilbert Grape Page #2

- Come on down.

Come on!

Here we go. All right.

Thanks a lot, Jerry. Really sorry.

Good.

Good boy. Good boy.

I'm gonna take him home.

I promise it won't happen again.

Son, we hear this every time.

Then after a couple of days,

he's right back up there again.

Yeah, but this is the last time.

Right, buddy?

- It's the last time.

- Yeah.

- Come on. Let's go.

- I wanna go back up there again.

Let's go.

- I wanna go up there again.

- Arnie, man, good job.

- Hey.

- Don't touch him.

- Whoa! Nice try!

- Way to go, Arnie.

Could you do it again for me?

- Get out of here.

- Hey, could you help me out later...

- Yeah.

- with the fridge?

- With the what?

- Something wrong with the fridge.

- The electricity?

- I don't know. Maybe.

- All right. I have to get my tools.

- Hi.

I'll see you... I'll just come by later.

Hi. You be careful, all right, Arnie?

Okay.

Don't disappear like that

again on me, okay?

Okay. I disappeared.

I disappeared on Mom like that.

- Please don't disappear.

- Just let him go.

- Gilbert, will you bring the milk?

- I promise, Mama.

- Good boy.

- Disappear like that.

- Good boy.

The food.

- Are we ready to talk about the party?

- Sure.

- I'm ready.

Ellen's in charge of decorations.

Get this... purple, orange and green.

- Sounds good.

- Theme colours, okay?

- That sounds pretty good.

- I'm doing the food, the cake.

Okay.

Arnie, I'm making something

very special for you.

- And Mama,

you can supervise everything.

- Mm-hmm.

- Okay with everybody?

- That's disgusting.

- Sounds good.

What about me?

You are the guest of honour.

How about that?

Gilbert, what about me?

My party! It's my party!

- What about me?

- You just show up, buddy.

That's your job.

- All you have to do is show up.

- You don't have to do anything.

All you have to do is turn 18.

- You know, that just leaves Gilbert.

- Huh?

You're the only one

without anything to do.

- Got any ideas?

- Sure he does.

- No, I don't. No, I don't.

- Yes, you do.

- I'm almost 16,

and I've got pages of ideas.

- Ellen...

She designed a whole cake,

and you haven't done anything.

- Stop it, Ellen. Can it.

- Can I be excused?

- He never does anything!

- No!

- Please, can't we just do

something as a family?

- This is no fair, Mom! l...

- Can I please be excused?

- It's my party!

- We're planning this as a family.

- It's my party though!

- Is that too much to ask?

So it's gonna be an exact copy of the

one... the original they built in Boone.

- Really?

- Which is no big deal, Gilbert...

'cause 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 days...

there can be

a whole new restaurant there.

So I was driving past

the building site today.

- You know, it's goin' up right next to...

right down the road from Foodland.

- Right.

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 might be wearin' one of them

uniforms, flippin' some burgers...

saltin' some fries.

You never know. It could be the

best thing that ever happened to me.

- Hey! Get...

- What's the matter?

Get out of here! God!

I saw her!

I saw her, I saw her!

- That wasn't nice.

- What? What did I do?

- You know what you did.

- Oh.

That's your mother in there.

- Your mother.

- I know.

I don't get you, man.

I just don't get it.

- Let's go, buddy.

- Okay.

Come on.

Run, now! Run!

- Hey! Bye-bye, Mama.

- Bye, you guys.

- Bye, you guys.

- Move, honey.

- Gilbert, you're shrinking.

Shrinking, shrinking, shrinking!

I'm not tired yet, Gilbert.

Well, you gotta go to sleep, okay?

Okay. Goodbye.

No, it's not goodbye.

It's good night.

- Yeah.

- Goodbye...

is for when you're going away,

and we're not going anywhere, are we?

I know that.

- Jeez, I know that, Gilbert.

- See you tomorrow.

We're not going anywhere!

- Goodbye!

- Arnie.

- You gotta work later?

- Hi, boys.

- Yeah, I do.

- Hi, Arnie.

- Hi there, ladies.

- I gotta come back.

- How's Mama?

- She's fat.

- Come on, man.

She's not all that big, Gilbert.

- What?

Listen, I saw a guy at the state fair

who was a little bit bigger.

A little bit bigger?

- Look, all I'm saying is she's not

the biggest I've ever seen.

- Tucker, she's a whale.

- Well, take her out for walk

once in a while.

- Tucker, she's a whale!

- Take her out for a jog.

- Get her out of the house.

- Tucker, she's a whale!

- Hey, Bobby.

- Give her a chance.

- That's all I'm sayin'.

- Hi, guys.

- I know.

- How's business?

- Not good. Hey!

Nobody's dying.

There's a clear ladder.

There's a clear corporate ladder.

- I mean, this is not...

- That's good.

That's a good thing for you to do...

to have that happen.

- If you guys would give it a chance...

- l-l...

I just was saying that

it wasn't something that

I should be doing for myself.

Look, they use canola oil, okay?

You know what canola oil is?

You probably don't.

- No.

- They probably don't even sell it

at Lamson's Grocery.

- No.

- It's cutting edge.

- It creates a crispier french fry and...

- Well, that's...

and a more unique product.

And Burger Barn... Forget Wendy's,

forget Burger King, forget McDonald's.

That's, like, old hat.

Burger Barn's cutting edge.

I mean, l-I could really

stand behind it. There's...

It's an innovative place. You know,

they created the salad bar...

which is now mimicked by every

single fast-food chain in America.

- Yeah.

- They came up with that.

Fifteen different toppings

for each salad,

and two different kinds of lettuce.

And it's, you know,

it's all that you care to eat.

- I mean...

- Yeah.

You either go from clerk to fry cook

to cook to assistant manager...

of you can go from clerk

to cashier captain...

to assistant manager.

And then from assistant manager,

you could go to, uh, manager...

and then regional manager

and then...

Look at the little fellas.

You mean my hoppers.

Let's try this.

For my friend.

There you go, my boy.

What do you say, Arnie?

Thank you.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Gilbert.

This Thursday.

It's our anniversary.

Okay.

Hello.

Gilbert.

I'll need a delivery later.

Have a nice day.

Gilbert?

Gilbert?

He's behind the chips.

- Delivery, son.

- Excuse me?

Delivery. She's gonna be

needin' some help.

Yes, sir.

- Is that your bike?

- Yes.

I'll do it, Gilbert.

I'll do it.

- Here. Wait a sec.

- I got it!

- I did it, huh?

- Look there.

- I did it by myself.

Yeah. Look at that.

- I could go at any time.

- Shh. Arnie. No.

Any time.

Excuse me. Where to?

Oh, just keep going straight.

All right.

My mom... My mom wants me

to become... become 18.

And I'm having a big...

a big party, huh, Gilbert?

- Yep.

- When is that party coming?

- Six days.

Six days and my party,

and I'm gonna become 18.

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