

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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $1.3M
- Language
- Spanish
- sibling relationship
- waitress
- parent child relationship
- new mexico
- diner
- coming of age
- single mother
- teenage daughter
- unwanted pregnancy
- woman director
- mother daughter relationship
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereUSA Film Festival25 Apr 1992
- TheatricalR10 Jul 1992
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical152 Oct 1992
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical12+11 Mar 1993
GermanyDE
- PremiereBerlin International Film Festival24 Feb 1992
- Theatrical1222 Oct 1992
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Gas Food Lodging was released on 10 July 1992.
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1- W7/10
Wuchak
9/6/2025
**_Lost hearts in New Mexico with rooms vacant_** A single mother (Brooke Adams) and her two teenage daughters (Ione Skye and Fairuza Balk) live in a bleak small town in the desert. They each struggle with the boredom of mundane life and pursue romance. "Gas Food Lodging" (1992) is part reverent coming-of-age drama, similar to the future “Dreamland,” and part aging mother looking for love in the remote American…
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