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63% Critic Match
Gas Food Lodging
“When Shade's good, she's very good. But when Trudi's bad, she's better.”
6.3 / 10• 1992• 1h 41m•R• English
DramaRomance
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Brooke Adams
Nora
Lead
Ione Skye
Trudi
Fairuza Balk
Shade
James Brolin
John Evans
Robert Knepper
Dank
David Lansbury
Hamlet
Jacob Vargas
Javier
Donovan Leitch
Darius
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Allison Anders's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Gas Food Lodging is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
