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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 West, à la Alice Doesnt Live Here Anymore. Others that come to mind include: Desert Bloom, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Desert Blue and Tumbleweeds.
Its a quality drama with a barren dust bowl milieu that creatively fleshes out the three protagonists, offering interesting insights on life in general and, especially, the pursui...