Gas Food Lodging

Jul 10, 1992

1h 41m

★ 6.3

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

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.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Cineville

Gas Food Lodging Trailers

Cast

Nora

Brooke Adams

Trudi

Ione Skye

Shade

Fairuza Balk

John Evans

James Brolin

Dank

Robert Knepper

Hamlet

David Lansbury

Javier

Jacob Vargas

Darius

Donovan Leitch

Raymond

Chris Mulkey

Thelma

Laurie O'Brien

Tanya

Julie Condra

Brett

Adam Biesk

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