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10/07/1992 Drama, Romance 1h 41m
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When Shade's good, she's very good. But when Trudi's bad, she's better.

Overview

Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town. The beautiful and rebellious Trudi drops out of school and gets a job alongside Nora, while the younger Shade whittles away her time at Spanish movie matinees. Their lives are turned upside down when Trudi becomes pregnant and the girls' absent father returns.

  1. Allison Anders

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Brooke Adams

    Nora

  2. Ione Skye

    Trudi

  3. Fairuza Balk

    Shade

  4. James Brolin

    John Evans

  5. Robert Knepper

    Dank

  6. David Lansbury

    Hamlet

  7. Jacob Vargas

    Javier

  8. Donovan Leitch

    Darius

  9. Chris Mulkey

    Raymond

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak
Written by Wuchak on 2025-09-06
**_Lost hearts in New Mexico with rooms vacant_**

A single mother (Brooke Adams) and her two teenage daughters (Ione Skye and Fairuza Balk) live in a bleak small town in the desert. They each struggle with the boredom of mundane life and pursue romance.

"Gas Food Lodging" (1992) is part reverent coming-of-age drama, similar to the future “Dreamland,” and part aging mother looking for love in the remote American West, à la “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.” Others that come to mind include: “Desert Bloom,” “What's Eating Gilbert Grape,” “Desert Blue” and “Tumblewe...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$1,345,236.00

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