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Gas Food Lodging
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.
| Release : | 1992 |
| Rating : | 6.6 |
| Studio : | Cineville, |
| Crew : | Art Direction, Art Direction, |
| Cast : | Brooke Adams Ione Skye Fairuza Balk James Brolin Robert Knepper |
| Genre : | Drama Romance |
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Reviews
Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Good start, but then it gets ruined
As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.
One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
I know IMDb requires 10 lines, but I wish I could simply put "exquisite". Thank you yet again TCM for expanding my film horizons. October, 2015, TCM has a weekly segment on women directors. I had never seen any of Allison Anders films; but from the interviews I looked them up. This was the first one I picked to watch. Story, cinematography, music - this movie has the whole package. Each of the actors played their roles to perfection, especially Fairuza Balk, who gave us a brilliantly nuanced performance. I was entranced throughout. Thank you Allison Anders for this beautiful gift of a film. It will absolutely be one I will be purchasing for my collection and I cannot wait to see the rest of your body of work. Exquisite.
Guys and gals alike will like this one, just be patient. There is a real story here, clearly understandable and enjoyable by everyone, just give it a chance.Anyone who as a teen has wrestled with grown-up problems can understand clearly what is being told by this movie.Guys, shouldn't be too quick to dismiss this as "a chick flick" because you will be missing an inside to women that can be very informative.And the acting is well done, too. Kudos even to stiff-board Brolin for adding believability to his dumb runaway father character. Brooke Adams is believable as the low income mom trying to cope with her daughters' problems. Ione Skye puts a whole different view on the "easy girl" we remember for high school. And Fairuza Bulk puts a nice believable twist on her role as narrator learning about real love.
GAS FOOD LODGING (1992) *** 1/2 Brooke Adams, Ione Skye, Fairuza Balk, Donovan Leitch, Robert Knepper, James Brolin, David Lansbury, Jacob Vargas. Delightful and at times melancholy story of a single mother raising her troubled daughters as a truck stop waitress. Balk is winning as the introverted younger sibling who has a penchant for Spanish melodramas and '70s nostalgia. Directed nicely by Allison Anders, her debut.
It's really too bad this movie is marred by poor performances from Ione Skye and Brooke Adams. In the movie, they are feuding daughter and mother, respectively, and constantly look as though they want to crack up laughing. Ione Skye did nothing in this movie to convince me that she has the slightest idea how to act. However, Fairuza Balk did an admirable job of carrying this movie as the younger, wiser daughter who's trying to keep what's left of this tormented family together.
