Gas Food Lodging
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Brooke Adams, Fairuza Balk, Ione Skye, James Brolin, Robert Knepper Director: Allison Anders Writer: Allison Anders Producer: Albert T. Dickerson III Producer: Carl Colpaert Producer: Christoph Henkel Producer: Daniel Hassid Producer: Gregor von Bismarck Writer: Richard Peck DVD: Region Code 99 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1 Running Time: 101 minutes Published: 2003-09-01 DVD Release Date: 2003-09-23 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |
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Movie Reviews of Gas Food Lodging
Movie Review: Good, like all of Anders' movies.
Summary: 4 Stars
Gas Food Lodging (Allison Anders, 1992)
I'm easy, I admit it. I'll watch any movie in which Ione Skye appears topless. Lovely woman, she is. Of course, the movie being directed by Allison Anders helps. Lovely movies, she makes.
This one concerns a mother (Brooke Adams) raising her two children, the wild older one (Skye) and the bookish younger one (Fairuza Balk) in a little town in the desert. There's young love, there's heartbreak, there's weird, malformed prejudice and hints of magic. Then their father (James Brolin) comes back into the picture, and everyone's world gets turned upside down.
Anders has a reputation for making deeply personal, quirky films (Things Behind the Sun, Grace of My Heart, etc.), and Gas Food Lodging is no different. It rambles, basically plotless for much of its length, around these three characters, their friends and adversaries. If you like your films with a good, solid plot, this one's not for you. But Anders has a certain magic touch that seems to work well with the slice-of-life films she so often helms; she is capable of crafting characters the viewer can identify with and care about, and that makes all the difference. I liked this movie a great deal, perhaps more than any of Anders' other movies I've seen, and I definitely recommend it. *** ½