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Gas Food Lodging

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

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.

19921h 41mRDrama, Romance

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About Gas Food Lodging

Directors
Allison Anders
Cast
Brooke Adams, Ione Skye, Fairuza Balk, James Brolin, Robert Knepper, David Lansbury
Genres
Drama, Romance
Content rating
R
Original language
English
Production countries
United States of America
Status
Released

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