Gas Food Lodging

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.

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

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