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Based on a novel by Richard Peck called -Don't Look and It Won't Hurt, Allison Anders' melodramatic coming-of-age tale Gas Food Lodging takes place in Laramie, NM, a small town right off the highway. Nora (Brooke Adams) is a truck-stop waitress who lives in a trailer park with her two teenaged daughters, Trudi (Ione Skye) and Shade (Fairuza Balk). While Trudi sleeps around and defies her mother, Shade spends her time at the local cinema and wishes she could have a dad like a normal family. One day, Trudi hooks up with a visiting geologist (Robert Knepper) and spends a magical evening in a cave with him. However, he turns up missing and Trudi finds herself pregnant. Meanwhile, Shade's romantic advances are rejected by Darius (Donovan Leitch), but she finds something new with film projectionist Javier (Jacob Vargas). Shade's attempts at finding a husband for her mom are unsuccessful, but Nora ends up meeting satellite TV installation man Hamlet Humphrey (David Lansbury). Features a cameo appearance from Dinosaur Jr. frontman J. Mascis, who also wrote the original music. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

Brooke Adams - Nora
Ione Skye - Trudi
Fairuza Balk - Shade
James Brolin - John Evans
Robert Knepper - Dank

1992	In Competition ()	Berlin International Film Festival	Allison Anders
1992	Best Director (nominee)	Independent Spirit Awards	Allison Anders
1992	Best Screenplay (nominee)	Independent Spirit Awards	Allison Anders
1992	Best Actress (winner)	Independent Spirit Awards	Fairuza Balk
1992	Best Supporting Actress (nominee)	Independent Spirit Awards	Brooke Adams
1992	Best New Director (winner)	National Society of Film Critics	Allison Anders
1992	Best New Director (winner)	New York Film Critics Circle	Allison Anders

Allison Anders' debut feature, Gas Food Lodging, comes to DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Surround. English and French subtitles are accessible. Aside from trailers for The Last Picture Show, The Craft, Cruel Intentions, and Big Girls Don't Cry, there are no supplemental materials of any consequence. Although the film looks and sounds fine, this is a basically a bare-bones release from Columbia/TriStar. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

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