Gas Food Lodging

When Shade's good, she's very good. But when Trudi's bad, she's better.

Sinopse

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.

6.3
1992
Released
1h 41m

Status

Released

Original Language

Revenue

$1,345,236.00

Keywords

#sibling relationship
#waitress
#parent child relationship
#new mexico
#diner
#coming of age
#single mother
#teenage daughter
#unwanted pregnancy
#woman director
#mother daughter relationship

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Reviews

@Wuchak3 months ago

**_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