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Rated: R; Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance; With: Brooke Adams, Fairuza Balk and Ione Skye

Nora (Brooke Adams) is a harried truck-stop waitress with her hands full: One daughter (Fairuza Balk) watches drippily romantic Mexican movies and tries to set Mom up with men, and another (Ione Skye) is hormonally agitated and majoring in disagreeableness. Writer-director Allison Anders' Gas Food Lodging is charismatic and true (if a shade too sentimental), catching family frictions and private paper cuts with disarming accuracy. The performers, including James Brolin as the girls' mess-up of a father and Donovan Leitch as the terrified object of Balk's adolescent affections, are everything the characters demand and the viewer would want. A-


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Posted Mar 26, 1993
 

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