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Gas Food Lodging (1992)

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Reviews Counted: 13

Fresh: 10

Rotten:3

Average Rating: 6.5/10

Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Allison Anders's GAS FOOD LODGING is a heartfelt, honest look at a teenage girl's coming of age. Fairuza Balk stars, giving a tremendously sympathetic performance as Shade, a girl living in a... Allison Anders's GAS FOOD LODGING is a heartfelt, honest look at a teenage girl's coming of age. Fairuza Balk stars, giving a tremendously sympathetic performance as Shade, a girl living in a trailer park with her mom, Nora (Brooke Adams), and doing her best to hold her volatile family together. While Shade's older sister, Trudi (Ione Skye), sleeps around and is filled with rage at men, her mother, and the world in general, Shade is a compassionate, melancholy teen who spends time watching wildly romantic Mexican movies at the local cinema. She believes her mother will be happy if she can find her father, John Evans (a moving performance by James Brolin), and reunite her family. Though things don't go quite so smoothly, the film maintains a hopeful tone. Anders's second film, GAS FOOD LODGING put her on the indie film map, establishing her as sensitive director whose stories of struggling women, told in their own voices, are marked by emotional honesty and disarming humor. GAS FOOD LODGING is an intimate, well-wrought gem. [More]

Starring: Brooke Adams, Fairuza Balk, Ione Skye, James Brolin

Starring: Brooke Adams, Fairuza Balk, Ione Skye, James Brolin

Director: Allison Anders

Director: Allison Anders

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One of the major achievements of Anders' impressive debut is that it touches all the right issues of contemporary working class women without ever being stridently anti-male.

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The down-to-earth quality and the earnest performances by Ione Skye and Fairuza Balk as small town sisters ground the film.

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The story of this fractured family has a ring of authenticity, but lacks the hands of an artist to shape it into something more profound and affecting.

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