Film

Gas Food Lodging

1992 · 1h 41m · Drama · Romance

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

IMDb

6.6

Rotten Tomatoes

83%

Metacritic

78

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.

Brooke Adams

Nora

Ione Skye

Trudi

Fairuza Balk

Shade

James Brolin

John Evans

Robert Knepper

Dank

David Lansbury

Hamlet

Jacob Vargas

Javier

Donovan Leitch

Darius

Chris Mulkey

Raymond

Laurie O'Brien

Thelma

Julie Condra

Tanya

Adam Biesk

Brett

Leigh Hamilton

Kim

Diane Behrens

Hostess

J. Mascis

Cecil

Tiffany Anders

Persi

• Allison AndersDirector · Screenplay
• Richard PeckNovel
• William EwartProducer
• Dan HassidProducer
• Seth WillensonProducer
• Christoph HenkelExecutive Producer
• Carl ColpaertExecutive Producer
• Dean LentDirector of Photography
• J. MascisOriginal Music Composer
• Tracy GrangerEditor

Gas Food Lodging Trailer

Release date

July 10, 1992

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

R

Revenue

$1,345,236

Genres

Drama, Romance

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