Gas Food Lodging
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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
Movie Review: I'm not sure how I missed this movie
Summary: 4 Stars
So, I just watched Gas Food Lodging for the first time. Wow!
First of all, any movie that has narrative voice over always makes me smile. I don't know exactly why, they just do. I think because it gives far mor insight as to what's happening.
These three women living on the outskirts of a dying town smacked of "The last picture show". Life has dealt each a pretty hard hand and it's hard to tell if Mom Nora, older sister Trudi, or young Shady Lynne has it the worst. Nora's found love where she could and it's burnt her every time and that's been passed right on down to her two daughters.
They've no faith that it will ever change, yet they continue to try to find love anyway. Quietly surprising and very entertaining, I would say to run out and pick this up today.
Movie Review: Simple, honest, heartfelt
Summary: 4 Stars
A simple slice of life - a mother and her two daughters surviving life in a
desert trailer park.
I found I liked this much better on 2nd viewing, prepared for its low-key
gentle pace.
Some really touching moments, and the relationships have a sense of real-life
complexity. On the other hand the acting is a mixed bag, and a few plot twists feels
forced. Still, a good, bittersweet movie about life on the fringe of society.
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