Gas Food Lodging (1992)

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

Movie · Drama, Romance · 1h 41m · Rated 6.3/10 on TMDB · Released July 10, 1992

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.

Directed by Allison Anders

Cast

• Brooke Adams as Nora
• Ione Skye as Trudi
• Fairuza Balk as Shade
• James Brolin as John Evans
• Robert Knepper as Dank
• David Lansbury as Hamlet
• Jacob Vargas as Javier
• Donovan Leitch as Darius
• Chris Mulkey as Raymond
• Laurie O'Brien as Thelma
• Julie Condra as Tanya
• Adam Biesk as Brett

More like this

• Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
• The Man in the Moon (1991)
• Dirty Dancing (1987)
• Light of My Life (2019)
• My Blueberry Nights (2007)
• Love You to Death (2019)
• Charlie St. Cloud (2010)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
• Endless Love (2014)
• Regretting You (2025)
• Untamed Heart (1993)
• Moll Flanders (1996)

Movie and show details come from TMDB. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.