Gas Food Lodging

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{{Infobox film
| name = Gas Food Lodging
| image = Gasfoodmovieposter.jpg
| caption = ''Gas Food Lodging'' theatrical poster
| director = [[Allison Anders]]
| producer = [[Carl Colpaert]]
| screenplay = Allison Anders
| based_on = {{basedon|''Don't Look and It Won't Hurt''|[[Richard Peck (writer)|Richard Peck]]}}
| starring = {{ubl|[[Brooke Adams (actress)|Brooke Adams]]|[[Ione Skye]]|[[Fairuza Balk]]}}
| music = [[J. Mascis]]
| cinematography = Dean Lent
| editing = Tracy Granger
| distributor = Cineville
| released = {{Film date|1992|07|10}}
| country = United States
| runtime = 101 minutes
| language = {{ubl|English|Spanish}}
| gross = $1.3 million
| budget = $1.3 million
}}

'''''Gas Food Lodging''''' is a 1992 movie written and directed by [[Allison Anders]] and stars [[Brooke Adams (actress)|Brooke Adams]], [[Ione Skye]], and [[Fairuza Balk]]. It tells the story of a waitress trying to find romance while raising two daughters in a trailer park. It was adapted from the [[young adult fiction|young adult]] novel ''Don't Look and It Won't Hurt'' by [[Richard Peck (writer)|Richard Peck]].

The film was produced by Cineville and entered into the [[42nd Berlin International Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Berlinale: 1992 Programme | url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1992/02_programm_1992/02_Programm_1992.html | accessdate=2011-05-24 |work=berlinale.de}}</ref> Fairuza Balk won the 1993 [[Independent Spirit Award]] for best female lead for her role.

==Plot==
Nora, a waitress with two teenage daughters, struggles to raise them in a trailer park as a single parent after her husband abandons the family. After repeatedly skipping school to go on dates Trudi, the elder daughter, quits school and gets a job as a waitress alongside her mother. Meanwhile, the younger daughter, Shade, spends most of her time watching the movies of Mexican film star Elvia Rivero and dreams of finding a boyfriend for her mother.

After being dumped by the boy she was seeing, Trudi meets Dank, a British [[petrologist]], at the restaurant where she's working. They eventually sleep together, and she tells him that her promiscuity is caused by the fact that she lost her virginity in a gang rape perpetrated by local boys she knew. Returning home the following night, her mother tells her that she has one month to find a new home because Trudi has slept with a man.

Shade tries to seduce Darius, her friend, by dressing up in a wig and costume à la [[Olivia Newton-John]], Darius's supposed dream girl, at her sister's suggestion. After her seduction attempt fails, presumably because he is gay, she runs into Javier, the local projectionist, who teases her over her outfit before giving her a ride home on his bike. Afterwards she sets her mother up on a date with Raymond, a married man who was revealed earlier in the film to be having an intermittent affair with her mother. As they do not want to reveal their connection to the eavesdropping Shade, they make wry conversation where Raymond claims to work as a gravedigger and Nora as a brain surgeon.

Trudi discovers she is pregnant with Dank's child, but when he fails to return from an expedition, decides to go to Dallas and give up her child for adoption rather than have an abortion. While Trudi is away, Nora begins an affair with Hamlet Humphrey, a man who installs satellite dishes, while the girls' biological father, John, reappears.

Shade falls in love with Javier and tries to reconnect with her father. Initially disturbed by Hamlet Humphrey, she warms to him after he reveals that he is familiar with the movies of Elvia Rivero and compares Nora to her.

Shade goes to Dallas with her mother and Hamlet for the birth of Trudi's baby. After giving birth to a daughter, Trudi tells Shade that she'll be staying in the city, as their home holds too many bad memories for her. On their way home, Shade spots a sign advertising [[Day-Glo Color Corp.|day-glo]] rocks like the one Dank gave her sister. She goes to confront Dank but instead learns that he was killed in an accident while looking for rocks. Walking off into the desert, Shade realizes that Dank always loved Trudi and vows to eventually tell her what happened.

==Cast==
{{div col}}
* [[Brooke Adams (actress)|Brooke Adams]] as Nora Evans
* [[Ione Skye]] as Trudi Evans
* [[Fairuza Balk]] as Shade Evans
* [[James Brolin]] as John Evans
* [[Jacob Vargas]] as Javier
* [[Robert Knepper]] as Dank
* [[Donovan Leitch (actor)|Donovan Leitch]] as Darius
* [[Chris Mulkey]] as Raymond
* [[Julie Condra]] as Tanya
* David Landsbury as Hamlet Humphrey
{{div col end}}

== Soundtrack ==
The soundtrack for ''Gas Food Lodging'' was released by [[Elektra Records]] containing 28 tracks. J. Mascis of [[Dinosaur Jr]] contributed many of the tracks and also made a cameo in the film.

== Home media ==
''Gas Food Lodging'' was released on [[DVD]] [[DVD region code#1|region 1]] in the United States and Canada on September 23, 2003 via [[Sony Pictures Home Entertainment]]<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.blu-ray.com/dvd/Gas-Food-Lodging-DVD/71121/| title=Gas Food Lodging DVD| publisher=Blu-ray.com| accessdate=August 11, 2018}}</ref> It was again made available in region 1 as part of the Sony Choice Collection on April 3, 2012.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.blu-ray.com/dvd/Gas-Food-Lodging-DVD/95294/| title=Gas Food Lodging DVD Sony Choice Collection| publisher=Blu-ray.com| accessdate=August 11, 2018}}</ref>

The film was made available for the first time on [[Blu-ray]] format in the U.S. and Canada via the Sony Choice Collection on April 4, 2017. The set contains the [[1080p]] transfer, 2.0 DTS-HD Master Audio and English SDH subtitles and no special features.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Gas-Food-Lodging-Blu-ray/179655/| title=Gas Food Lodging Blu-ray Choice Collection| publisher=Blu-ray.com| accessdate=October 12, 2018}}</ref>

On August 10, 2018, it was announced that the film will be released on Blu-ray from [[Arrow Films]] on their subsidiary, [[Arrow Academy]], on November 12, 2018. The set will contain the newly remastered 1080p transfer and the original uncompressed 2.0 audio, as well as several special features.<ref name="Blu-ray">{{cite web| url=http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=23766| title=Upcoming Arrow Academy Blu-ray Releases| publisher=Blu-ray.com| date=10 August 2018| accessdate=August 11, 2018}}</ref> The film will also be released in the United States on Blu-ray from Arrow Films on November 13, 2018.<ref name="Blu-ray" />

==See also==
* [[List of films featuring the deaf and hard of hearing]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|id=0104321|title=Gas Food Lodging}}
* {{Rotten-tomatoes|gas_food_lodging}}

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[[Category:1992 films]]
[[Category:1992 drama films]]
[[Category:American films]]
[[Category:1990s feminist films]]
[[Category:American independent films]]
[[Category:Films set in New Mexico]]
[[Category:Films shot in Arizona]]
[[Category:Films shot in New Mexico]]
[[Category:Films based on American novels]]
[[Category:Films directed by Allison Anders]]
[[Category:American drama films]]
[[Category:American feminist films]]
[[Category:1992 independent films]]

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