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Gas Food Lodging

Gas Food Lodging

6,3 /10 (73 Votes)
1992 EN 101 min

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.

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Release date

10/07/1992

Votes

73

Popularity

0.7

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

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

101 min

Revenue

$1,345,236

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Wuchak

Wuchak

2025-09-06

⭐ 7

**_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 “Tumbleweeds.” It’s a quality d…

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